Market Compass, Inc is a privately held company based in San Francisco, CA. Founded in 1999 by Michael S. Williams and Amy S. Hoffman, Market Compass, Inc. specialized in teaching derivatives trading to both professional traders and individual investors alike. In 2000, McGraw-Hill published “Fundamentals of the Options Market", an educational primer on options trading written by Michael S. Williams and Amy S. Hoffman. In 2001, Market Compass, Inc. moved into software development with the creation of the first ever options screener/scanner, RiskCompass (available on ESignal), which allowed retail investors the ability to create positions based on their market sentiment in real-time. In 2004, Market Compass launched NCompass, a professional trading platform for option traders currently used by professional traders at firms including: Pension, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Dash Financial and Interactive Brokers. Market Compass, Inc.