Trading Tools and Tactics

Greg Capra is president and CEO of Pristine CapitalHoldings, Inc., the nation's leading educational service forself-directed traders. He has 15 years of experience as a daytrader and swing trader. Many years ago, Capra realized how to collect valuable intra-dayinformation from stock quotes and store them into an orderlycomputerized system. He utilized a program called SuperTic totrack and evaluate this information, which led him to his pursuit ofintra- day trading tactics. In those days, free online stock charts and quotes were notwidely available, and institutional traders had a great advantageover the individual trader. Today, the playing field is more level.Capra saw an opportunity to build an educational and research firm forselfdirected, independent traders. This meant that ordinary peoplecould now possess a sophisticated level of research on par withinstitutional traders and hedge funds. Capra developed The Pristine Swing Trader, an advisorynewsletter with over 60,000 subscribers, and is co-author of thebook, Tools and Tactics for the Master Day Trader (McGraw-Hill,2000). Pristine.com was founded in 1994 and combinespublication-based education with seminars and education servicesaimed at helping traders gain an intuitive understanding of themarkets. Over 400 seminars are conducted each year around theworld. Before founding Pristine, Capra spent 15 years running his ownbusiness. Since founding Pristine.com, his desire has been toeducate the individual investor in quantitative analysis of marketmovements.