Meet Investment Guru who Teaches Financial Literacy While Serving Life Sentence



“The limit is not in the sky. The limit is the mind.” ~Unknown

After watching a Youtube video and researches about San Quentin inmate Curtis Carroll, nicknamed "Wall Street,"I got inspired to let us know that there is no limit to what you can do, neither does your environment or your present situation determine your path to success in life. 

 Curtis Carroll, an Illiterate who is sentenced as an adult when he was as a teenager, taught himself to read, at first he just read the newspaper sports pages, but eventually he discovered that the business section offered tremendous insight about finance and money. Carroll spends 18 hours a day studying the stock market.
San Quentin Prison happened to be the oldest prison in California. Located north of San Francisco in the heart of one of the world’s richest communities, San Quentin features California’s only gas chamber. Because of “The Arena’s” bloody reputation for gang warfare, cell block names include; “Little Viet Nam”, “Death Alley”, “OK Corral” but despite been in there, it didn't stop him. Carroll doesn’t have access to the internet. Instead he veraciously reads The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Forbes, trying to anticipate what the stock market will do next… along with the rest of us.
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 Curtis Carroll discovered the stock market in prison. Through friends and family on the outside, he invests from San Quentin State Prison in Northern California, and he's also an informal financial adviser to fellow inmates and correctional officers. Everyone in prison calls him Wall Street.

Curtis Carroll: Inmate Secures His Future Via Wall Street


 He carries a folder labeled "penny stocks" with printouts of his favorite stocks, broken down by how they performed each day. He studies patterns meticulously, predicting which ones will or won't make money.

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 Carroll and prison officials have teamed up to create a financial education class for inmates. He starts off the class with a motivational speech.
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 "Financial education for me has been a lifesaver," he says. "And I have always been passionate about trying to make money. The problem with that money is it was focused in the wrong area — crime."
“I like to know what the CEO’s doing,” he said. “I like to know who’s in trouble.”

He makes trades and checks closing prices by calling family members. 


Your mind is ultimately what will make or break you. If you can control it and make it work in your favor, you will go on to achieve great things that most people don’t.
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Source: http://www.breitbart.com, www.wallstreetdaily.com, www.npr.com

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