Over the past several days, I've received scores of inquiries and communications from a lot of you. We've FaceBooked together, Tweeted, chatted, IM'd, PM'd and for some, even talked by way of phone, all at every hour of the day and night. Many of you have remarked, "Gee Oliver. I just realized. You never sleep." This is true. I've never been much of a sleeper. I've always derived a certain pleasure from working when everyone else (in my hemisphere) is fast asleep. It motivates me.
Most of your communications have quite naturally been infused with great sadness and despair, given the recent and quite unfortunate collapse of what used to be a great company when I was there. Many of you want to know what your future will be. I have spent countless hours answering this question, over and over and over again. In fact, I've written the same message in various different ways so often, I now have writer's cramp, blurry eyes and a weakened bladder
So, in an effort to communicate to a blanket of you, all in one shot, I've posted the most recent answer I provided to one of my baby traders. I trust that it will serve as a reminder that I'm right here, in the open, available to you.
Here I stand. On my word. On my honor. On my promise to you. Here I stand, ready. Willing. Able...in fact begging to take care of you all. No matter what others say and no matter how much they feign sincerity, I am the last man standing and it's all for you.
Question
Oliver,
I invested my last $15k in Team Trading - in fact I borrowed much of that. What is to become of me now that Team Trading has failed? Please support us little guys that are going to get hurt now that Team Trading is bust.
My Answer:
Dear Gary:
I want you to take a deep breath and then read my words very carefully. I will NEVER allow you to get hurt. I am prepared to take every single one of you who joined the Trade for Life program right now! This very instant, without as much as a hitch. If all goes well with these guys now that they are DEAD, perhaps they will finally let you go, finally release you.
Why not send a message to Charles, Malcolm and all the other spin doctors over there who had the nerve to ask you to lure your friends and family members into a sinking ship just a little more than a week ago. Why not write them this very moment. Tell them to allow me to provide what you paid for. Tell them to let you go. But please understand this, Gary. I won't do it through the firm they took from me and tainted. I will not take on their train wreck. I will not save them. They don't deserve it. But I will save you and all my traders. So tell them, if that is what you want. Tell them to bug off and leave you alone.
Here is a nice, little exercise for you Gary. Why not gather up all the communications from Charles Vacarro, Malcolm Murray and the rest of their regime since January 1 of this year. Get them all nice and neat into a pile (it will be rather big, I warn you) and read through each promise (now broken), each claim (not true), each story (bogus), each spin (now gone). Then burn it!
Gary, 2009 was a record breaking year for TeamTrading in terms of revenue. Thanks to me. It took these bozos who illegally took control of my company and locked me out less than 3 months to wreck it all. Unreal! What a shame! What a travesty!
You and everyone else are about to learn whose words really mean something and whose words have always been filled with just a lot of false, hot air.
Never forget this. You are mine. You will always be mine, if you'll have me, and I will always take care of you. You paid for that. You deserve that. And I will honor that...for Life!
Don't believe me? Just Watch!
My name is Oliver Velez. And I am the last man standing!
