VIE 29 DE MARZO DE 2024 - 09:12hs.
Trader Duarte, founder of Futebol Milionário

“I believe in an explosion of bookmakers in Brazil that should invest heavily”

Cor Jesum Duarte, or better known as Trader Duarte, is one of the leading and most influential sports tradering in Brazil. Founder of Futebol Milionário, one of the most renowned sports betting websites with courses, also has a Youtube channel with more than 60,000 followers. In this interview for GO APOSTAS, he says he believes that betting is part of the country's future and will generate many investments, including in the football sector.

GO APOSTAS – Let’s talk a little about yourself, your background and how sports betting came into your life?
Trader Duarte - I am from a very simple district in the interior of Minas Gerais. Just for reference, there was no electricity there and we used kerosene lamp to illuminate at night. I lived there until I was 14 when my parents passed away and we had to look after four younger brothers. We moved to Ouro Preto, a famous historic city in the interior of Minas. I believe it helped my maturity as a man. I started working at the age of 16 as a car washer, and then in different companies such as hotels, contractors and steel mills while studying. I have technical training in occupational safety and production engineering. Studying is my favorite thing to do today. At 30 I worked in a mining company, lived in João Monlevade - where I live today - and decide to leave to open my business. It started as a CD store and expanded to one of the largest computer stores in the city, with annual revenues of almost two million reais (US$ 485,000). Despite making good money I ended up failing as an administrator. I was practically at rock bottom and around that time a friend from Portugal introduced me to sports trading. It's been almost eight years and at first it took me a long time to understand the business and how to make real money. After about three years together with my current partner we had the idea of ​​publicizing my work on the internet. We then started to create various projects such as online courses, face-to-face courses and investment game referral services.

With one of the biggest sports betting channels of Brazil in Youtube, what do you intend to communicate to your audience? What other ways do you also use to reach your public?
I always try to make them understand to take sports trading professionally, seriously. Sports trading is not a fairy godmother who will transform everything overnight. The potential for transformation is huge, yes, but it all depends on dedication, much learning and working method. Besides Youtube, I also use Instagram, a blog, WhatsApp and Telegram.

When did you decide, or realiz, that you could be a sports betting influencer?
I always had a potential for leadership. Although I was always quite shy, when I was in groups and at work when I was always forming groups I was chosen as a leader and that was natural, I believe that people saw me as a leader and chose me naturally. In sports trading, as I said before, the idea came up with my partner to publicize my work. This occurred approximately after three years of working with sports trading.

Through your work on social media, what kind of experiences do you want tell your audience?
I try to give the content I learned in my walk. How to develop a working method to succeed. The step by step to be able to continue in sports trading. I work a lot on mind control.
 
What is your betting mode? Do you prefer any specific sport or device to play and place bets on?
I am a trader; I seek opportunity during games. I try to know the championships and teams well; I choose games that have potential for my working methods and during the game I see if there are indicators and ideal prices for my investments. I only work with football and only at Betfair, which is the biggest sports bag in the world. Although everything in life is a gamble, I prefer to call it investment.

What strategies do you use when placing sports bets?
There is some confusion when it comes to strategy and ends up having various interpretations. In my case my strategy is to know the teams of the confrontation doing a deep study. Watch the games and observe the ideal indicators and prices for the entries. The markets I like to work with is the 1×2 back or lay to one of the teams in the over line of the Under/Over market. I look for errors in the market before or during games that value quotes for my side.

What tips and recommendations would you give to those starting out on betting?
They should start in sports trading as they start in other activities. First study, focus on learning, do career planning and follow people who are consolidated in the market. Technique and strategy are the easy part, focus on mind control. The only way to control emotions in my opinion is through math so find the patterns and create working methods. Creating methods at the time of investments will not have emotional influence because everything will be dictated by mathematics. Did the indicators happen? Make the investments. Did not happen? Do not do it. That simple. The vast majority often say that sports trading is very difficult. I think the opposite, as any activity becomes easy once you learn how to do it. Up to then, everything is difficult. Even cycling is difficult if you don't know.

How is a routine day for you at work?
My routine is very busy. But I don't give up staying with family and having leisure periodically. In my daily life I wake up around 6am and go to the gym. I use the morning to create content and make the latest preparations for the games. I analyze every game of next week on Thursdays of the previous week and just see some details closer to the day’s event. In addition to working in various projects I have within sports trading; I also have other kind of investments. I take one hour a day, usually from 11am to 12pm to answer all the private messages I receive.

After the legalization and beginning of regulation, how do you see the moment of sports betting in Brazil? What should change?
I believe in an explosion in Brazil. Like everything that is booming in Brazil, I believe it will attract a lot of people and we have to be very careful about that because so many malicious people will come to take advantage of this explosion. On the other hand, I believe that Brazil has the potential to have one of the largest audiences in this field, especially in football investments. Many more content creators will appear, and bookmakers should invest heavily here.

How do you project the sports betting market in Brazil in two or three years?
Everything will depend on how the regulation is done. I could give an answer to that question after regulation. Considering that this regulation will be the way we want it, with fair taxes and many new bookmakers, I see this market attracting big investors and multiplying by hundreds the number of traders. Today we have few people who work professionally. When I speak professional, I am not talking about a cataloged profession, but working seriously. And the tendency is to create professionals and people to consume the services of these professionals.

Source: GO APOSTAS