We recently connected with Duronte Carter and have shared our conversation below.

Duronte, appreciate you joining us today. Let’s start with education – we’d love to hear your thoughts about how we can better prepare students for a more fulfilling life and career.

I would implement financial education classes that teach about credit, assets vs liabilities, taxes, etc. History classes taught by people of the corresponding culture. Emotional intelligence class so students learn self discipline when acting on their emotions.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I was born in Atlanta, GA and raised in the cities of Decatur and Covington. I graduated from Kennesaw State University in 2018 with a Mechanical Engineering degree, NCAA D1-AA championship ring, and as a member of the Tau Zeta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc, I was offered a full time position and relocation by the Boeing company after attending the 2018 NSBE conference in Pittsburgh. The summer before I relocated to Seattle, I was introduced to Forex through a fellow KSU student named Tez. I’ve always been interested and good at economics so I started learning as much as I could through Youtube and the internet about forex. Spent the next 3 years trading, building trading bots, and investing in crypto until I finally committed to turning it into a business. I came up with the name ChartTrappin because I wanted to attract people interested in trading but also appeal to people born in hoods and impoverished areas like I was because I know the education system in those areas would never teach this information. As time passed, I started growing my social media profiles and recruiting people to join my discord so I can teach them how to make money from their cell phone. I provide live teaching classes, trading courses for those who like to learn on their own, programmers for trading bots, and a community of likeminded individuals. What sets my business apart from other trading/investing groups is that we focus on pyschology more than anything. Most people underestimate the effects of our emotions on our financial decisions so we emphasize that and hold each other accountable. My 2 most prideful moments are when I passed the FTMO challenge and watching one of my very first students, Braxton, grow to the point where he now trades completely on his own without asking for my opinion.

Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?

TikTok is hands down the most effective way to grow my audience and attract clientele. Its so effective that the first post I ever made on tiktok blew up and I gained 20k followers in less than a week. The numbers were so overwhelming that I had to take a step back and focus on the foundation of my business so I didn’t miss the overflow of opportunity falling in my lap.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

Its not necessarily a lesson I had to unlearn but its a bad habit I had to kill. The major lesson I learned that drastically shifted my mindset was from reading the compound effect. Inconsistency was a major problem of mine due to being multitalented. I’m one of those people who is or can be good at everything and this has always caused me to pickup and drop things on a whim. The compound effect really emphasized the benefit of consistency to me and taught me to never skip a day on my journey towards any goal. I underestimated the weight of being consistent even when its a day of small progress. 1% better isn’t just 1% better .. its exponential when you factor in consistency.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: charttrappin
• Twitter: charttrappin
• Youtube: charttrappin

Image Credits
@ChazzSplash