Frequently Asked Questions

  • Pristine Capital is a trading service and community bringing together professional and aspiring professional traders of stocks, ETFs, options, and other investment products. We provide institutional grade market analysis, trade alerts, and research to help traders grow their trading accounts and collaborate within a community-based Discord environment.

    Additionally, Pristine Capital offers a long-term investing membership designed for investors that do not have the time, willingness, or ability to manage their own investment account, but still want to diversify their exposures and save for retirement using a best-in-class long-term investing strategy. This program is administered through M1 Finance, allows the member to choose a portfolio based on their target goal (retirement) date, and is rebalanced monthly by our Head Trader.

  • We use our proprietary trend model to determine if the market is trending higher (+3), lower (-3), or in transition (+1, -1) and share the output in real-time with Pristine Capital Active Trading Members. We have detailed trading rules for each market regime that are also shared with members for full transparency. Using the trend model to determine our net exposure and trading approach keeps us on the right side of the market.

    Within this broader framework, we then drill down from broad asset classes, to sectors, style factors, and countries exhibiting relative strength using a proprietary scorecard. These outputs are shared with members in real-time.

    We then scan for the strongest stocks in the strongest areas of the market and use pivot points including market profile levels and key moving averages to enter these names at attractive risk/reward buy points.

    We follow a strict risk management process at the portfolio level as well as the individual trade level to ensure mistakes are minimized and wins are maximized.

  • We send out all trade alerts via the ‘trades-options’ and ‘trades-stock’ channels in our Discord Server.

    Every entry alert will send out a clear indication of what is being purchased, including full contract details for options, and position size. Every exit will be sent as a reply to the prior entry alert.

    Additionally, all open positions are recorded via our position log and are posted for all members at the close of business each day.

  • Yes! The trading community is designed to bring together many profitable traders to collaborate on trading ideas and strategies. You can benefit from sharing with the community and hearing differing perspectives on your ideas from a diverse set of other profitable traders.

  • We trade individual stocks, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), options contracts, and the ‘bluechip’ cryptocurrencies primarily. At this time, we do not day-trade futures, lottos, or 0DTE options.

  • The trading community is designed to empower traders to manage and trade their own accounts. If you wish to have your account managed on your behalf do not have the time, willingness, or ability to manage your account actively, we highly recommend our Long-Term Investing Membership!

  • Anyone is welcome to join, but the service is best suited for investors with $25,000 or more and a high risk-tolerance. Investors with smaller account balances are more likely to take on too much risk as a percentage of their account balance. We recommend our Long-Term Investing Membership to investors with lower balances and/or risk tolerances.

  • The community is designed to help you compound your trading account over time and beat the headline indices. This is not a get-rich- quick scheme; becoming profitable, getting rich, and staying rich takes time and effort. Our strategy optimizes high risk/reward entries, not shooting for the fence in an attempt to get outsized returns overnight.

  • Absolutely. Our job is to monitor the market and deliver you institutional- grade analysis and trade ideas in real-time. By budgeting your time and using alerts, you can just as effectively use the service as a full-time trader.