Greg Capra is President and CEO of Pristine Capital Holdings, Inc.,
the nation's leading online educational service for active, self-directed traders.
He has been a day and swing trader for more than 15 years. Back in the early 1990s
he found a way to collect the intra-day stock quotes coming into his computer and
store them into a program meant for commodities. For those interested, this program
was called SuperTic, which was then upgraded to what was Metastock’s intra-day
software at the time.
This was years before intra-day stock charts were available to traders and even
retail brokers. It was the days when institutions had all the advantages and the
playing field was far from the level one of today. But times were about to change.
Of course, the level of intra-day data available today has come light years from
that time. This was a time when a heavy rain storm could block the data feed from
Data Broadcasting, now known as eSignal to his satellite.
While the trading tools were crude in those early years, it was the start of a time
that was to become a new profession. What Mr. Capra taught himself in those early
years lead to the decision to form what was to become the nation’s leading
educational firm for self-directed traders. In time, execution systems that opened
and closed orders at light speed became available. This allowed anyone with the
desire to become a professional trader to compete on a level field with any institutional
trader or hedge fund.
After several years of teaching the foundation material that traders still learn
today in Trading The Pristine Method® Part I (TPM1)
Mr. Capra took the Pristine Method® to a higher level and created
Trading The Pristine Method® Part II (TPM2). TPM2 elevates students
to a more comprehensive and deeper understanding of how to use the tools and tactics
learned in TPM1. He is co-editor of Pristine’s flagship product, "The
Pristine Swing Trader.", editor of Pristine's
Chart of the Week used by thousands of self-directed traders,
author of his DVD seminar series, developed the Pristine
Advanced Trading Lab and co-authored, "Tools and
Tactics for the Master Day Trader."
Mr. Capra personally trains students that want to specialize in the trading of equity
e-minis in Pristine's E-Mini Trading Lab. The E-Mini
Trading Lab is given in a live market environment and is designed to impart expertise
and self-reliance to those wanting to become active equity futures traders. This
course is the pinnacle of Pristine's education program. Those that have attended
this course can confidently say that they have graduated and after any graduation,
it is all up to the individual to succeed or fail. On a daily basis he moderates
Pristine's E-Mini Trading Room (ETR).
Before founding Pristine in 1994, Mr. Capra ran a successful business for 15 years.
Wanting to invest that money wisely, Mr. Capra became a voracious student of the
market and became especially interested in the quantitative analysis of market movements.
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Jaime Annexy, President of Pristine Securities LLC. d/b/a/
Mastertrader.com, has twenty-seven years of experience in the securities industry.
Mr. Annexy has a B.S.E. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and
an MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business. He is a consummate
industry professional.
Mr. Annexy is responsible for the management and strategic
expansion of Pristine Capital Holdings Inc. financial services and products, and
the operations of its broker/dealer, Mastertrader.com. He trained with Merrill Lynch
and subsequently was a Senior Vice President of Dean Witter (now Morgan Stanley)
in charge of its retail operations in Puerto Rico. Prior to joining Pristine, he
was President and COO of Investors Street, a direct access broker/dealer headquartered
in Miami, Florida.
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Carol Irwin, the Director of Finance for Pristine Capital Holdings, Inc., oversees
the administrative and financial operations of the Pristine organization. Her responsibilities
include cash flow management, implementation of corporate systems and procedures
and human resources. Mrs. Irwin interfaces with our legal and accounting professionals
on an ongoing basis and works closely with the Chief Operating Officer of Pristine
in developing the corporate structure. She maintains all corporate documentation
and financial reports.
In addition, as a member of the Management Team, Mrs. Irwin
is responsible for facilitating communications between all members of the team as
well as coordinating the corporate calendar. Mrs. Irwin joined Pristine in January, 1997 as a Customer Service Coordinator. She
came to us with a background in retail accounting which included over five years
with Lord & Taylor as a Senior Accountant and Internal Auditor.
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Paul Lange – Vice President of Services Paul is a Senior Pristine Certified Trainer with over 10 years of Pristine expertise. He is the lead moderator for the Pristine Method Trading Room, and a Senior Seminar Instructor. He is head of Pristine Real Time Trading Rooms, and a member of the elite Pristine Research Department.
Paul graduated from Roosevelt University in Chicago in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in Finance/Management, and from The John Marshall Law School in 1987 with a Juris Doctor degree. He spent several years in management and then ran his own business for six years, which he sold in 1997. He then spent a year trading options and finally in 1998 began day trading full time after being taught the Pristine Method® of Trading. He has developed many training and educational tools to help himself as well as others as a Pristine Educator.
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Joe Ely is the Managing Director and General Securities Principal responsible for
the day-to-day operations of Pristine Capital Holdings' broker/dealer, Mastertrader.com.
Mr. Ely is a graduate of The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, where he
earned his B.S in Business Administration with a concentration in Financial Management.
He started his career in the financial services industry working as a trader's assistant
for a SOES trading firm.
Subsequently Mr. Ely worked for Oppenheimer Capital, a
firm focused on managing equity investment portfolios for institutional clients.
After managing the Executioner, a branch office of Terra Nova Trading, in 2001 Mr.
Ely became one of the original members of Mastertrader.com's management team, whose
priority is to provide quality products and service excellence to the active trader.
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