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.

Frank is a 16-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.

Simon Brad has been a professional trader since 1991. His experience spans a vast gamut of institutional trading activities, beginning in 1991 with making markets in ADR’s, ADR arbitraging, Brady Bond trading and US Securities trading for several Latin-American banks and institutions. Mr. Brad specializes in a niche of the market described as “Sector Trading”, where he utilizes the Pristine Top-Down Analysis to find and trade the hottest sectors and stocks within the market. Mr. Brad has been a Pristine student since 1997 and a Senior Pristine Certified Trainer since 2001, providing education in the Pristine Method® to many students around the world. Mr. Brad also helps to provide education in Spanish to Pristine’s clients in Latin-America and Spain.

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.