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 his decision 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.

Jody Samuels, one of North America's leading coaches for successful traders, heads up the Forex Division at Pristine Capital Holdings. Jody's trading expertise spans the financial, currency and commodity markets, as a former trading professional for a US global investment bank and sales professional for an energy company. Jody is passionate about teaching individuals how to trade the currency markets and use entrepreneurial skills and habits to effectively manage their trading accounts as a business.

"We developed this program coaching hundreds of FX traders," Samuels says. "Most FX traders have a lot of technical knowledge, but they don't have the entrepreneurial skills and habits they require to achieve their full potential," says Samuels. "They may not be operating their FX trading activities as a business. They may not have clear goals or a business plan. They may not have a clear trading strategy, or exercise discipline in their trading. They may not have a clear trading plan about when they will enter and exit a trade. As a result, they may not be making as much money as they would like."

"As a member of our program, the objective is that you save time and effort, make more money, and achieve your full potential as an FX trader."

Simon Brad is the Director of Educational Services of Pristine International. After obtaining a degree in Business Administration in 1990, Mr. Brad traded for several investment banks and financial institutions over a period of eight years. His experience in the markets began with the trading of Latin American ADRs. Later, Mr. Brad dedicated himself to trading the NASDAQ and NYSE markets. Under the tutelage of our Pristine co-founders, he was able to develop and adapt the world-renowned Pristine Method® for the worldwide Spanish-speaking community of traders. Currently, Mr. Brad coordinates all educational and training activities. He is also the moderator for the Trading Room in Spanish, where he shares his knowledge and experience with a growing number of traders that have graduated from the variety of Pristine educational seminars held in Latin America and Spain.

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.

Kurt Capra is the moderator of the Pristine E-mini Trading Room (ETR). Kurt graduated from PACE University with a degree in business management, and has since focused his attention towards helping others become successful traders. Kurt was personally mentored by Pristine President and CEO, Greg Capra in the Pristine Method®. He believes that an advantage he has had over so many other traders is that he has applied himself completely to becoming proficient in only the Pristine Method.

After working with many traders, Kurt found that many of them have spent years learning various trading styles without focusing on one methodology. He has found by teaching, coaching and working with hundreds of other traders, that many of the methods those traders talked about had conflicting views or styles. Through this experience Kurt was able to avoid the confusion of learning different methods which significantly shortened the learning curve for himself.

Kurt coaches traders daily and makes trading calls on a daily basis, live in the E-mini Trading Room. Kurt also contributes to the Lesson of the Week and the Pristine Swing and Position Trading newsletters on a regular basis.

Susie Haikyan is Co-Moderator in the Pristine Method Trading Room, a Pristine Trader Coach and instructor for Pristine's Trading Labs. She has been trading full time for the past four years, after completing her Pristine Education mentored personally by Pristine Senior Instructors. Before starting her trading career, she successfully ran her own business for 12 years.

Susie trades both Equities and Options and is proficient in trading in all time frames. She specializes in Swing and Day trading with a very high rate of success. She enjoys helping traders on a daily basis, in The Pristine live interactive trading room, learn how to increase profitability in their trading.

Frank is a 17-year Option Strategist specializing in using options as a strategic trade/investment. He specializes in taking an Observation/Opinion and developing the appropriate strategy to blend with an existing objective.

For the past 10 years, Frank exclusively used Index/Equity Option Products in a Private Hedge Fund where he served as a Risk Manager implementing several Income Strategies mostly consisting of low risk and a high probability of success.

He has consulted and served as a Financial Expo Guest Speaker where he spoke on Options and Strategies. He has over 50 Option related articles published and is very passionate about working in the Pristine environment. Frank stresses Options are a craft and a constant progression. With the proper knowledge, Options can provide the Trader with the ability to enter positions that offer an edge to an existing market opinion.

Avery Meizner is a Pristine Coach and Counselor who presently makes his living trading his own account. Prior to becoming associated with Pristine, Mr. Meizner worked in many capacities in the industry for over 15 years.

Mr. Meizner is a graduate of Bernard M. Baruch College Of Business and Public Administration in New York City with a major in Accounting. He has been employing The Pristine Method® successfully for over five years. He has also written extensively on the subject of trading psychology and related issues.

Jeff is originally from Florida. He enjoyed a brief racing career in Daytona and later switched his focus to the direct sales industry. Over his 23 year professional career, he operated several businesses spanning multiple countries which resulted in achieving prominent levels of financial success.

Jeff had some prior experience trading stocks, and in 2003 started trading again. Jeff's thirst for self-improvement and desire to succeed had him read several books and absorb a lot of different trading materials as he re-ignited his trading career. He became a student of the Pristine method and knew at that point that he could really succeed on obtaining a consistent stream of income from trading on a daily basis.

Jared Wesley is a moderator in the Pristine Method Trading Room (PMTR) and a Pristine Trader Coach. After graduating from Boston College in 2000 with a BS in History, he spent 5 years living in Tokyo, Japan. Despite actively trading the markets since 1998, it wasn’t until his return from Japan that Jared was introduced to Pristine. Along with mentorships from Ron Wagner and Tom Willard, Jared attributes much of his success to the fact that he has been solely consumed and focused with the Pristine Method, which significantly shortened his learning curve. One of Jared‘s focal points is his keen desire in helping traders keep their approach simple. Less is more. He avidly preaches emotional and educational discipline as cornerstones to success.

Jared is very proficient in all timeframes, but specializes in early morning and intra-day trading on the shorter, 2’ and 5’ charts with a high degree of success. He makes trading calls on a daily basis in the PMTR, regularly contributes to the Pristine Lesson of the Week and does Free Workshops as well. We are pleased to have him as part of our team at Pristine.