Quillan Roberto Black, also known by his social media moniker ‘CueBanks’, is a 30-year-old entrepreneur and established Forex trader. He was born and raised in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica, but later on, moved to the United States. It was there that he made his transition from a regular 9-5 job as a Target employee to an extremely profitable high-level trader and investor.
Early on in working a minimum wage retail job, Black realized that working a 9-5 was not the way he wanted to live his life. With his Target experience entailing an unwelcome ‘reality check’ in the form of a 50 cent raise after three months of labor, he made up his mind to break away from the regular daily grind. Equipped with a determined entrepreneurial mindset, Black sought to establish a path less beaten for himself, far from the traditional ways of income that he previously observed.
Black’s golden opportunity was learning how to leverage the Forex market in his favor. This global market is the largest in the world, open 24 hours a day, Monday through Friday. Traders purchase one currency to sell for another, with exchange rates fluctuating based on supply and demand. It exercises influence over the price of goods and services worldwide. Black put focus into learning to trade in these markets in 2015, and although the process wasn’t immediate he caught on quickly, beginning to see consistent profits which in turn began to accumulate.
Now the CEO of his own online company, Black is sharing his knowledge and expertise with his followers. He has created his own Wall Street Academy, centered around creating financial stability gained through learning how to trade in the Forex market. As a self-proclaimed “dynamic” trader, Black has honed in on his unique trading style over years of practice to create a distinct combination of methods that are a part of his success as a trader. Students of his ‘Wall Street’ program are exposed to this unique trading style in order to quickly expand their understanding of the Forex Market. The other program, named Forever In Profit (FIP), offers training in three trading methods to create a ‘supergroup’ that is changing students’ lives globally. Through these online mentorship programs, Black continues to encourage and enable others to access the life they truly deserve.
Black explains his passion for teaching others about financial freedom and financial literacy stems from his own experience and dissatisfaction while working a minimum wage job and the lack of opportunities that came from such limited means. “If financial freedom is not there you don’t have access to meet those new people that can actually unlock new opportunities for a person.” He utilizes this perspective as a solid rationale for this belief, explaining that the opportunity to learn skills such as those he has acquired and is now offering is valuable beyond measure to those in similar situations.“As long as it’s something that’s gonna be passed on from generation to generation [Especially in the Black Community]. That’s more important than anything else.”
The ability to secure generational wealth is just one of the rewards from his mentorship program however he states that it is something that each person has to ‘want’ for themselves for the mindset, commitment, and action to be carried over to produce progress and real results. He renounces selfishness in a profession such as his. Instead, focus on qualities such as patience.“It’s about being patient enough to see that skill grow to the point where you can take advantage of it how you want to,” he says. Highlighting that gaining the knowledge to then share and pass on through development is where the real fruit of a trader’s labor lies.
Black states that a trader needs to be persistent and not fear failure. While speaking about doing things for the right reasons, he credits self-motivation and conviction, rather than comparison or external dependence to help keep him on track. “A person’s gonna fail…I’ve lost a lot of money,” he admits. His mindset, however, makes the differentiation between failure and opportunity by allowing him to see lessons in the losses.“How I could’ve lost money, I could’ve gained money… it’s binary. The same way a person could’ve lost, a person could’ve won.”
In everything, he describes the process as trial and error, figuring out what went wrong and adjusting oneself accordingly to change the negative outcome to a positive one. “I’ve never said I ‘mastered’ anything, I always say I’m very very good at what I do. So I’m able to keep on growing beyond a certain point,” Black states.
There are ups and downs when it comes to trading. With share honesty, black reveals that even though in the early days of his learning, he may not have had much immediate headway. The persistence, sacrifice, and mindset he had were eventually the game changers for his success. In the beginning an “account [may have been] gone in like, three, four days,” however Black persisted. He put his minimum wage earnings toward new accounts each time until his method and profits produced a consistent enough turnover for him to leave his Target job. This level of dedication to his craft eventually allowed him to make the transition further, from solely trading currencies to entering more risky, high-class markets like JPY (Japanese Yen pairs), gold, indices (US30), and even trading bitcoin. Due to the extremely fast-paced, ever-changing nature of these markets, the conditions for trading are considerably more challenging, allowing his payouts to be greater. Black’s larger profit payout results in more opportunities for investment in other trading-oriented companies, charities, and even the construction of a car showroom for his high-class fleet of vehicles.
Participating in top-tier trading markets allows Black to maintain and support his now lavish lifestyle. Coming from a humble background, aspects of his lifestyle today are surely straight out of his childhood’s wildest dreams. The entrepreneur traces his love for cars all the way back to when he was a young boy in Jamaica, heavily influenced by his enjoyment of video games like Gran Turismo. Now able to afford it, Black has fulfilled his childhood fantasies purchasing an impressive lineup of luxury vehicles, the majority of which he reveals was bought using bitcoin. His Lamborghinis are what he names his most prized possessions, and although he enjoys displaying these ‘trophies’ on social media, he does not ascribe to the notion of people who ‘flaunt pretentiously’ for social media.
“I’ll consider it flaunting if you meet the person in real life, and it’s not exactly how they’re portraying [themselves to be] online. They are flexing for no kind of reason because I’ve seen that so many times…90 percent of people that show off are not doing it, [those people] make a bad name for that other 10% because I work hard for everything that I have.” This is his reason for also documenting his entire journey on his Instagram, and not recreating his account only when he had already ‘made it.’ He references his profile which includes everything from college photos in 2014, all the way to his luxury lifestyle today, advising people to “scroll up and watch the buildup”.
Despite the luxuries afforded to him while abroad, Black shares his deep love for his birth country with his daughter. He speaks passionately about the importance of her ‘knowing her roots’ and growing her appreciation for simple grounding experiences. He visits Jamaica multiple times a year just to reset, explaining“In America, they feed you so much material stuff…So coming here [to Jamaica] gets me back to [being] level-headed, so when I go back there, I’m on a whole different wavelength. I go back there focused and hungry just to gain that happiness that I have here.” Through different cultural aspects such as the food, language, and overall vibrant Jamaican traditions, he seeks to give his daughter a foundation and experience similar to his upbringing (including playing with goats). “It’s gonna bring her to a point that she appreciates everything,” he says.
Black believes that there is always a way for determined persons to redefine their circumstances and live the life they deserve. Armed with the principles of having positive thinking, and the courage to take the leap of faith, he urges others to look around and explore the options and opportunities that are available even if they are not deemed to be ‘traditional’. He encourages the youth to use today’s financial and technological climate to their advantage, as the job market is not what it used to be. Finally, in advising his audience on how to ‘leverage the market’ in their own favor, Black offers this piece of advice, especially targeted to the Jamaican youths:
“It’s a lot of art between y’all out here, it’s not just what you see that’s around you. Believe in yourself, understand that you have to take advantage of every opportunity that you come across, and don’t be too skeptical to the point that you’re not gonna try the opportunities [that come]. Try the opportunity and then fail, or try it and go through with it. We’re in a different era with technology so we have to just learn how to adapt to our environment and go from there.”
