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Yo, swag can see. Vlog current status: I've done a lot of things in my life and in this industry. I've started multi-million dollar businesses, and I have somebody here who's done more than me. And it's a lot to say: the one and only Q Banks is in the building. What's going on? What's goody? Uh, today we got a good one for you guys. Um, today I'm going to be interviewing Q and just asking him questions because he's done a lot of things in this industry. Like I said, I've been trading for nine years, but I've only been teaching and profitable for the last five. And you've been doing that longer than me, cuz I remember when you had your first, I think, what, $14,000 day on UJ, and you posted it on Facebook. It was uh, $30,000 a week—30,000 a week. I remember seeing that. I'm not sure like what happened like each and every single day, but the week itself was 30k though. I remember that. That was like life-changing, honestly.
Yeah, life-changing for me. I was in college, and I saw that pass to my boy Shy. I was like, nah, this is different. That's definitely different. But to start it off, you know, when you still have these $50,000 to $100,000 days or weeks—I know money is money, you know, forever and profit—yeah, does it still excite you seeing blue, or have you been like kind of numb to money?
Yo, it's crazy because like even like I think trading-wise it doesn't get me super excited, but I still enjoy the pro—like the process that it takes to actually make the money, really. You know what I'm saying? Like, marking up charts, I got to wait it out, I gotta do this, I gotta do that, I got to scale in, you know what I'm saying? Like that is pretty—it's still kind of exciting. But um, I think even like even if I make like less, like $100 doing something else, I'm like, yo, this is exciting, as you know what I'm saying? Like, I think it's because it's something new, it's it's fresh, as you know, versus trading like, bro, like we're kind of used to this nature right now, so it's not going to be as exciting as it once was, but I'm completely fine with that, you know what I'm saying? Like, born money is is good money, also, you know.
That's so—the actual number doesn't excite you anymore? It's more so the process?
The process, yes. But I mean, obviously, if I break past certain milestones, that'll hit me. But I feel like if it's over 100,000 or like, let's say under 200,000, it's not going to excite me too much because I've done that so many times. But if it's over 200 plus or even 300 plus, I'm like, yo, you know what, this could, you know, I could turn up a little bit, you know what I'm saying?
So, speak of that milestone, because I want to say, about—correct me if I'm wrong—about two years ago I saw a withdrawal on your Instagram of $450,000. Correct?
Yeah. Talk about that, because you bought a Ferrari with that, right? The red Ferrari, the Pista, right?
Yeah, the Pista. Talk about that to the audience.
So, um, that was um, one of the time periods that I was going super, super hard, you know what I'm saying? Like, I had actually saved up a bunch of past withdraws and everything from broker accounts. I put all that back into like my my trading account, so it was like around 600,000, and I brought the 600,000 up to like 1.8. And then—
Oh, so you already made 1.2?
Yeah, like for in general, it went from—it went from six to 1.8, and then from um, 1.8 down to like 1.5. Yeah, because I had lost $300,000 before I said, you know what, it—I'm done.
Got you. Got so—like I feel like that that hit is very important, also, because if I don't actually take that hit, that I'm going to keep on going.
That's a good point. Yeah. So that's when I actually withdrew enough to actually buy the car, have some fun, and um, buy some, you know, investments. And the—so the audience knows, you made 1.2, cuz I didn't even know that. That's tough. I mean, because they want to focus on like what was withdrawn.
Oh, I got you. Got you. Because after I took out the car money, um, the lost money and that kind of stuff, I was already back down to like around six, seven, or, you know what I'm saying—back to the original. So at the same time, like I had to, you know, spend what I actually made or had fun with from that account, and then I was back to like my initial—
Got you. First of all, what is it? This—what what is this? Oh, this is an AP. Skelly. Skelly. Skelly. What is that? Open work AP. Jesus. I'm over here with the with the still basic Rolex. He got the—bro, if you look at this watch, right, it's very, very simple, right? But I feel like it's such an everyday watch. It's it's light on—light on the wrists. It makes a cool sound like whenever you you do that, also. Wow. But um, I think that like a person appreciates it because you see all all like the mechanics and everything behind what actually makes the watch, which is pretty cool.
Listen, for the audience who doesn't know this, I just came from a vacation with Q and a lot of other partners in Malta, and all of them had the APs, all decked out. So it's a lifestyle. Do you know why, though?
No, I don't know why, actually. Okay, so—and I just started getting into watches more like about probably like almost two years ago, right?
Got you. Because, all right, boom, you pull up to a spot, right? Obviously, pull up in like a nice car and everything. Cool. Cool. Once you get out of the car and go into place—yeah, now what? Then a person can still see like your status in some kind of way based off of what's on your wrist, you know what I'm saying? And then past that, that's when you have like the talk game and that kind of thing. So I feel like it's more just depending on where you are, you could showcase your status and everything a different kind of way.
Got you. Once you get back inside or get back outside, then they see the car that you drive, you know what I'm saying? So I feel like it's different different things. Like, if you have a dope house, only you can see that you have a dope house, you know what I'm saying?
You know me, I got the biggest house all the time.
Yeah, and your house is crazy. But once you leave there, now what? Then you have a nice car, where you have a nice watch, you know what I'm saying? So I think there are certain things that you could actually buy to kind of like—this still have that conversation without a person actually knowing you, you know what I'm saying?
Got you. So like you can still be a part of that conversation or even be approached by people that want to have a conversation with you based on based on how you look.
Correct. Correct. Interesting. Because it's it's funny because uh, it depends on where I'm at, but you know me, I have like the iced-out chains and stuff, right? And some very—very—very—in some, you know, settings, everybody's like, oh, what do you do? In other settings, like they look at me like I'm—like even in Dorado Beach where I'm at right now, they look at me like I'm crazy. So I don't I don't wear it in Dorado Beach, but if I go to Los Angeles or California, I think because some some people appreciate it and some people just see it as like, oh, like he's doing way too much—doing way too much. Cuz it's like three, four—
CH—exactly. Exactly. Or this is brand new to that person based on how it is—like me—like like my chains and everything are very, very simple, but at the same time like I like a nice watch, I like very, very, very, very like light, um, subtle jewelry, um, that doesn't really overpower like like my like my drove and that kind of stuff, you know what I'm saying? So that watch cost a lot more than a lot of people's houses.
Well, yeah, this watch is like—I mean, this—not like my like my most expensive watch, but this watch was like 145. I've seen the expensive watch at Anthony's wedding. That that's the that's the Millie watch.
No, well, I have the—it's like a gold version of a gold AP with a green face. That's 300,000.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, but that was a gift, you know what I'm saying? I know that was a gift, so I never came out of pocket. But at the same time, like if you have business partners that's actually willing to give you $300,000 watches, very, very different. Keep them around.
Fact. Okay. Switch—switch back over to the the 450,000. Back to the audience: what kind of advice do you have for them when it comes to setting out goals to get what they want? Like, did you say, I want a Ferrari Pista, so I'm going to make this much money, or it just happened because of the money you made?
I had said that like like last night on this live and everything. I'm like, yo, there's many times that I'm trading, and if I'm trading without a purpose, then I'm going to blow that—I'm blow that money or I'm going to watch that money bleed out.
Got you. Like, there's many times that like I'm trading, then like, let's say if I'm up like $120,000 and then I close at $12,000—why do you think that was? Because I I'm not aiming for anything, you know what I'm saying? But if I had a a goal on my board and that kind of stuff that I'm aiming for—all right, boom, 120, close out because I'm putting that money towards something. But if I have no goals in mind and that kind of thing, that that money just being made to be made—that makes sense. There's no kind of like goal behind that, so like I have no eager to actually close out because I'm not aiming for anything. So I feel like um, at the time like I was aiming for a a new car, but um, I never knew what—so every single chance that I get, like even on my on my board now, I said um, it says 150 over plus close, because because I have no reason to want to make more than 150. I feel like, you know what I'm saying? Like, past 150, come on, bro.
So you got to have that like as an affirmation on your board, something you see.
BR, I have to—if it's not on my board, like I could see 150 on my charts and I'm like, yeah, it's play money. Yeah, it's nothing.
I get you. I get you. But if it's on my board and and I'm saying 150 plus, I have no reason to to keep on going. No reason. But you know what I'm saying? But I try to actually withdraw at least $100,000 a week and that kind of stuff if I'm having like a good trading week, at least. But if I have a trade floating profit, if it's past 150, I have no reason why I shouldn't close.
Talk about getting to that point of those $100,000 weeks. Do you think that's attainable trading a major or has to be a pair like a US30 or, you know, even a gold per se?
Nah, bro. I think it's more—it's not even like peer-based, it's more just um, apply the pressure-based. Like I I was talking about this like last night um, about greed—like like like what do you think about greed in terms of trading?
Yeah, people have a lot of it. And for me, I I I made a video a few days ago about like—I I don't care if it's 10k or I don't care if it's 50k, like I'm going to be very, very happy. But I feel like a lot of traders, you know, want more than the charts actually give them, and they end up blowing their account because of it.
But you don't think that that greed is also pretty important in some kind of way? Greed, selfishly potent, like you know what I mean? Like, I I got to be greedy to a certain extent to want to get more. But I feel like, you know what I mean, as far as like a positive pressure—a positive pressure has to be applied to actually break that that barrier. Like, let's say if um, if I was so satisfied with only making 50k trades and that kind of stuff, um, how would I even get to $100,000 trades? I have to be greedy at least a little bit, want a little bit more to even break past that barrier, so I got—so I can see like what I'm capable of, you know what I'm saying? So I feel like um, I mean, that's a a very, very important thing to actually have in some kind of way, because you got to pretty much be greedy, but also understand that like you're being greedy in some kind of way to actually push yourself to that next level.
Makes perfect sense. How do you balance everything you just said with the business side of things? Cuz like the first thing I said in the beginning, like I run several multi-million dollar businesses, but you got several—several—how do you balance all of that with the trading?
Trading is is fun, bro. Um, I feel like the trading thing—like I can't even like blend those two things, because business is business and trading is like my personal thing. Gotta—the the business stuff, I feel like, you know, I have to make sure that these businesses are operating to at least even like 30%, 40% to actually see some some kind of money. But at the same time, like whenever I'm trading, me trading attracts people to those businesses, of course.
100%. So I have to actually trade good enough on this side so I actually, you know, go on this side. But me—me personally, I don't really focus fully—fully—fully on my business because we have people in place for that, you know. We hire out CEOs. Like I'm not—I'm not the CEO of every single company.
I think that's where I fell at, cuz I I still run the operations, and I still try to trade, bro, because there's people that that pretty much—they've been in a CEO in a certain field for longer than you and me.
Absolutely. So they understand how to actually grow a certain business. So like I'm not the CEO for certain things anymore, based on me like being the founder of the company. We're hiring—we're hiring out CEOs that pretty much been focusing on that certain craft for a certain amount of time, so I could just focus back on like my craft. So me attracting people on this side, I could now guide people on this side, you know what I'm saying? Because I think that like it's not even just like—
Funneling people—
Yeah, yeah, per se. But people want to be where people are making money at, you know what I'm saying? People want to use things that I'm using because that's that's where I'm making my money at, so they want to be a part of it, also.
Got you. Last—okay, that makes perfect sense. Last question: how—so what's a normal day or even week for Q Banks, including—I know you got a lot of things going on. I'm not talking about the experiences, but like, you know, incorporating trading, but like I said, you got people running the businesses. Do you check up on them, make sure the businesses are cool, then go back to trading? Like so—
I think that like, bro, dead ass, like I'm probably in like about 20, 30 different group chats, so like I have to pretty much like jump back and forth on Slack. It could be Slack, it could be Telegram, it could be WhatsApp, it could be Skype, it could be all those, you know, of course, um, platforms and everything. But at the same time, like I have to make sure that like I check on them if somebody tags me to see like what's going on. Yeah, but I don't have to be in them 24/7. But um, besides that, like I'm in that type of chat throughout the entire day, so like I don't really have like a set time as why as like when I'm checking the chat.
Got you. But trading-wise, I wake up, I'm on the charts at least from like 7—7:00 a.m. to like around 12.
Oh, you're a New York session trader?
Yeah, because I mean, it's your 30 stuff, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, yeah. Makes sense. So outside of that, um, I don't really try to look for trades, but I try to actually be in the markets around that time period so I could actually get in the market to actually take—take a position, but also maintain a trade beyond there if I could, you know what I'm saying? So um, I think like that's just the balance like right there—try to actually make sure that I'm putting in like my trade time and like my time with my students in around that 7 to 12. God, beyond there, like I'm on my phone throughout the entire day, so it's not like I I I ever stopped working, you know what I'm saying? That my phone is always on me, so I'm in some kind of way. So like you quit your job from 9 to 5 to work to do 24 hours a day plus, no matter what. Everybody does that, but like there's certain times that I lose track of that because like um, there's certain times that like I text people at like 2:00 a.m. I'm like, I don't give a—like if you got your phone, I'm going to text you, I don't care what time it is. We're always on the clock. Feel like, you know. So I don't really think that like, you know, it—like past 8:00, don't text me. Like, I've never been that person. I'm not going to lie, like if you're—and I respect boundaries, but if you're somebody who's in my company who's like that, I it won't—won't work, right? Cuz Connor knows I would text him at 3:00 in the morning. Yo, I got this idea. I'm about to say swaggy de ass. I I have no Browns. You—I have—I would—I would text you at 4:00 a.m., 5:00 a.m., like like whenever I I have that thought, I'm going to text you, I don't care what time it is, to go. But I feel like that's people that—that's pretty much like a serial entrepreneur, like that. They understand that, you know what I'm saying? Like the set times and everything is kind of hard because there's different time zones, no matter what, and we're always doing business with people with different time zones. My developers are in India, so—
Totally understand. Listen, when I text you, I text you—it is what—whenever you can, but at the same time, like the text is out, you know?
That makes perfect sense. Actually, this is the last question. This is—slyly unrated—wor—balance all of that out with being a father? Cuz I am now a father. I got a second one on the way.
Oh, God. How does that—like talk about being a father and and how much joy does, you know, seeing your daughter happy—and then does that make you want to continue to grow the Empire, or does that make you want to be like, all right, I got enough?
No, man. Um, so I feel like everyone has to come to a point that um, they're satisfied. Well, like it's okay to like just chill, vibe for a little bit. Got—I feel like the mentality of like a lot of entrepreneurs like nowadays, like they have to like, what's next? Like what's next? Like they always trying to figure out like what's next, when in reality like, bro, like it doesn't always have to be what's next.
Absolutely. It could just be like, yo, like I'm I'm chilling, I'm vibing for a little bit. Like I don't have to keep on—W—to want to get more and more and more and more and more. Like if you keep on chasing money, for example, like that's one thing in life that doesn't never stop.
Absolutely. Like it's a a Googleplex, which is the largest number ever—that's what you're pretty much chasing, which can never really be achieved, you know what I'm saying? So I feel like just making enough that you could pretty much buy what you want, go where you want, like live however you want—your family is good. Like once you pretty much can obtain that, that's when you can pretty much survive out and chill, like you don't have to keep on going. So I feel like just—just me—me understanding that there's many, many times I I turn down podcasts, I I've turned down going places because I'm like, you know what, like I'm about to chill with my girl, my daughter, and everything, you know what I'm saying? Like I don't need to actually do business 24/7. I'm good.
Matter—family time is just—probably even way more important than a lot of business. It is, you know. And I didn't realize that like when Bailey was pregnant the first time, but the minute Allur was here and she started smiling at me, it was a wrap. It was a wrap. My heart was given to her, no matter what—whatever you want, girl, I'm there, no matter what. Not—and like um, I'm a big thing—like I pick up my daughter and drop her off school every single day. Big time. And I'm never late. Big time. And I make sure that I'm never late. So like it might seem small to some people, but like, bro, like I make sure that I'm always on time. She's never ever wondering like, oh, like where's Daddy? And that kind of stuff. Like she knows that like if she needs anything, she'll call up Daddy, and I'll be right there. So that alone, I feel like it's just like a very, very like uh, important thing to even like know—knowing that um, you could be there for your family at any point, and you could always drop business, or a business is not as important as your family, because you want to make sure that she's growing up knowing that she could depend on a certain—a certain parent.
Per—I've seen podcasts where just like their kid is 17 and they're just like, I just regret working so much when they were two, three, four. I'm never getting to that point.
So Q, appreciate the simple conversation. Guys, we have to stop this right now, do our real—real quick podcast, because he does have to go pick up his daughter and go to lunch. So appreciate coming through. Gang, life later, guys. Peace, guys. I hope you enjoyed that video with me and the one and only Q Banks. If you want to see more, we actually just did a much longer sit-down podcast right over there that is going on our Deep Pockets podcast channel, as we plan on growing that channel out. So you want to see more, go to that channel right now by clicking the link below, and I'll see you guys in the next video. Later.