It all started, a long time ago, when a young man set out to find his fortune. Captain C.L. Brown was 19 years old with a sixth-grade education, and his family were junk dealers in Baltimore, Maryland. He heard about an oil boom in Mexia, Texas; so he went there, and spent his lifetime in the oil field learning skillsets and working hard.  One skill he learned was to lower nitroglycerine into the well-bore and blow it up, causing the wells to come in better and be more productive. Because of this skillset, he gained the nickname “Torpedo Brown.” Naturally, he had no competition because of the risk involved. When he was in his 60s, the Pure Oil Company asked him if he would like to buy the Mexia field. He had saved money his whole life. So, with a handshake and a loan, Captain Brown purchased the field. He fracked all the wells (an improving technology back then) and they came in like new. He paid the bank off in a little over a year, and bought oil fields in East Texas as well. He took his family from poverty to riches, but it took a whole life-time of hard work and risk. TRADEway teaches people all across America to become the “Captain Brown” of their family," through stock trading! Hard work, yes, and some risk, but at least you don’t have to deal with torpedos!

Many years later E.G. Hall married Captain Brown's daughter, Virginia—his favorite child. Elvis and Virginia were the first in the family to have business degrees. He and Virginia added sophistication to the oil company. Elvis had the “problem” of a lot of cash laying around, and so he became a skilled trader in the U.S. stock and bond markets. The family business continued to grow and thrive, and he passed all these skillsets down to their daughter Joye.

Elvis and Virginia’s daughter, Joye, married Paul Parker, a WWII veteran who had flown more than twenty bombing raids over Germany. He had become a geologist after the war, and his team discovered the Permian Basin oil field in West Texas. It is now the largest producing field in the world. Because of Paul, our family purchased leases in West Texas, and Paul drilled the second oil well in the Permian Basin. Unfortunately, Paul passed away in his 30s.

Some time later, Joye married a Special Agent in the F.B.I. named Fred Mitchell (pictured here with young David). Fred was a remarkable man of many talents. He quickly learned the family skillsets passed down to him and Joye, from Elvis and Virginia. He used oil funds to start the Van Zoren Pipe Organ Company in Portland, Oregon with his son, David. They later sold the pipe organ company to the CBS Television Network. Fred and Joye taught all the skills they had learned from Captain Brown, and Elvis and Virginia Hall, to David and his wife, Charlotte.

Fred and Joye’s son, David, went to Baylor University and studied pre-med for two years before being asked by Fred to change his major to business. David had been managing the oil company office since High School, and knew more about stock trading than his professors when he entered Baylor Business school. David married the love of his life, his child-hood sweetheart, Charlotte Black, and then graduated in 1978 with two business degrees--a Bachelor of Science degree in Business, and an MBA.

Two weeks before his Master’s comps, while driving 40 miles East from Baylor to work in the oil office in Mexia, David’s life suddenly took a vastly new direction. He asked the Lord Jesus Christ to come into his life and, in his words, “be my boss rather than me being my boss.” He was an entrepreneur at heart and he believed strongly in the idea of the family business, and now he saw this as an avenue to serve the Lord.

David felt called into the ministry about five years later and studied theology under his beloved mentor, Dr. Irwin "Rocky" Freeman. David continued running the oil company, but also served as Associate Pastor under the founder of a new church (Park Meadows Church in Corsicana, Texas), and then under the next two Pastors as well. Later, he became the Senior Pastor of the church, and is still serves and leads in this position today, some forty years later. David never took a salary from the church because God blessed his business skills; in fact, he was able to give to the Lord’s work through the years because of his background in business. 

When David and Charlotte’s five children were grown, they all realized the power of the skillsets passed down from Captain Brown, to Elvis and Virginia, to Fred and Joye, then to David, and now his children and grandchildren. They thought it would be great share the idea of the power of the family business and Stock Trading skill sets with brothers and sisters in Christ around the country. So, David and his five children, and their spouses (all ten together), developed the TRADEway system and began to teach it in every major market in the country.

David’s daily radio show, The Word on Investing (now a popular Podcast) reached hundreds of thousands of people, teaching business principles from the Bible. TRADEway grew into a mid-sized Registered Investment Advisory Firm along the way. By sharing how his family went from poverty to wealth through passing down skillsets and working together, David has helped thousands of families across America learn how to take control of their finances, inspiring them to pursue their own American Dream, chasing their biggest goals, by taking small steps.

David Mitchell

Founder & Speaker

Blair Nightingale

Speaker & Consultant

Jared Russell

Speaker & Consultant

Dave Huber II

Speaker & Consultant

Dave Huber Sr.

Speaker & Consultant

Geoffrey Nance

Executive Director of AMPT & Investment Adviser Representative Director

Ben Russell

Speaker & Consultant

Ross Querry

Lead Investment Adviser Representative

Ben Mitchell

Team Manager

Geoffrey Nance

Executive Director of AMPT & Investment Adviser Representative Director

Jared Russell

Director of Watch Webinars

& Coach

Cristie McLoud

Sales Consultant

Ben Russell

AMPT Sr. Analyst & Coach

Blair Nightingale

Speaker & Coach

Brandy Nance

Director of Virtual Events

Jenny Taylor

AMPT Investment Adviser & Coach

Shawn Glenn

Support Specialist

Tiffany Wilburn

Support Specialist

Andrew Wilburn

AMPT Client Engagement Manager

Cassandra Russell

AMPT Client Engagement Manager

Nathan Russell

AMPT Client Engagement Manager

Barbara Chen

AMPT Client Engagement Manager

Ross Querry

Lead Investment Adviser Representative

Pete Breidt

AMPT Investment Adviser & Market Corner Host

David Verbruggen

Director of Charts & Coach

Rachel McCants

AMPT Client Engagement Manager

Misty Feller

Administrative Assistant & Event Specialist

Maria Collins

Support Specialist & Special Projects Manager

Debbie Calvert

Executive Administrative Assistant & Events Director

Elise Laney

Marketing Director

Stefanie Walker

Digital Marketing Manager

Pamm Romines

Assistant Team Manager & Payment Account Advocate

Glenda Davis

Assistant to CCO & Admin. Assistant

Kristina Pierce

Contractor for Digital Marketing

Kyle Ballard

Contractor for Accounting

Diana Blood

Interim Chief Compliance Officer

David Mitchell

Founder, President,

& Chairman of the Board

Charlotte Mitchell

Vice President

Katie Huber

Chief Executive Officer

Dave Huber II

Chief Brand Officer

Colin Calvert

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Financial Officer

Ben Mitchell

Team Manager & Precious Metals Operations Manager

Paul Mitchell

YouTube and Podcast Production Manager & Personal Strategist

Matt Mitchell

Video Production Manager & Personal Strategist