Management Team
Oliver L. Velez
Chief Executive Officer
Oliver L. Velez, best selling author, world-renowned trader, advisor, and entrepreneur, is one of the most sought after speakers and teachers on the subject of trading financial markets for a living. His seminars and speaking events have been attended by more than 60,000 traders all over the world, and his runaway best selling books, “Strategies for Profiting on Every Trade” and “Tools and Tactics of the Master Day Trader,” are considered must-read classics for anyone interested in trading markets for a living. Dow Jones dubbed him “the messiah of day trading” and financial programs on CNBC, CBS and Fox News frequently seek out his expertise. Mr. Velez and his life-long dedication to bringing more awareness to trading as a way of life have been favorably mentioned in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Forbes, Stocks & Commodities and a whole host of other financial publications. He has also been the subject of numerous articles and books written about Wall Street's most successful traders, including the popular books, Bulls, Bears and Brains and The Guts & Glory of Day Trading.
Oliver L. Velez is internationally known for founding and growing Pristine Capital Holdings, Inc. (a firm he started out of his New York City basement apartment) into one of the country's premier educational institutions for investors and self-directed, retail traders. After serving as Pristine's Chairman and CEO for 12 years, Mr. Velez decided to turn his full attention to the professional trading arena. His new training program called Trade for LifeTM, which includes a 2-day seminar and a 5-day Live Trading Session with Mr. Velez himself, is designed to train traders to go beyond retail to trade the markets professionally for a living.
Today, Mr. Velez runs Velez Capital Management, LLC ("VCM"), one of the country's fastest growing private equity trading firms. VCM currently employs 850 professional traders who have been meticulously trained to trade his own personal account. Mr. Velez financially backs each one of his traders, absorbing all their losses, while sharing in the gains with the trader. Mr. Velez's vision is to grow his professional team of traders to more than 1,000 globally over the next 2 years. For the past 16 years, he has espoused the revolutionary idea that "micro trading," like "micro banking" has the potential to serve as a solution to many of the world's social ills. Through VCM, the Velez Family Foundation and several other major companies, Mr. Velez will be opening up trading divisions and training centers in South East Asia and Brazil in 2008. More major cities throughout the world will be added in 2009.
Mr. Velez is the author of the recently released best-selling DVD entitled, 5 Trading Tactics That Beat the Market and his newest book, Swing Trading with Oliver Velez, a course book complete with DVD. He is also the author of the soon to be released Trade for LifeTM Book Series and the much anticipated McGraw Hill published book entitled 26 Lessons from the Master Trader, due in bookstores late 2008.
Paul Lange
Vice President of Services
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.
In 1999 Paul became a student of Oliver Velez. He spent the years from 1999 until 2007 helping train traders at the first company co-founded by Oliver Velez, Pristine Capital holdings, Inc. He has privately mentored over 95 students and taught hundreds through seminars, DVDs, and in virtual trading chat rooms.
Paul joined Oliver in 2007 at Velez Capital Management, LLC to head up the Services division and the VCM Research department. He is the head moderator of the VCM Proprietary Trading Room and the Chief Editor of the Trade for LifeTM Daily Newsletter and its Intra-day Alert service.
Malcolm Murray
Vice President of Trader Education
Malcolm earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with Distinction in psychology from Swarthmore College and a Master of Sciences degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin. After a successful twenty year career in healthcare administration, with over 35 publications and presentations in the field, he has been a professional trader in securities for over seven years.
During much of this period, Malcolm served as a certified instructor for Pristine Capital Holdings, Inc. under Oliver Velez, providing instruction to hundreds of traders in technical analysis techniques. He is the author of seminars in managing a trading business and trading e-mini futures, has published several articles in this area, and has been interviewed on these topics in radio shows and publications such as Trading in Today’s Markets and Kiplingers Personal Finance. Malcolm was also co-founder and principal of a hedge fund specializing in long/short equity, options and futures positions.
Malcolm has now rejoined Oliver at Velez Capital Management, LLC as Vice President of Trader Education. In this role, he coordinates the VCM educational events and manages a trader advancement program designed to develop proprietary traders.