Interview with the 5%ers Head of Trading and Risk Management Desk

I have a very special treat for you today!

This past week I had the opportunity to interview Rubin, one of the team members of the 5%ers, who has both run their marketing and is now involved in heading their risk management and trading desk.

Rubin came to the 5%ers from trading options with a group in Tel Aviv, and is very knowledgeable and experienced in risk management practices and trading psychology.

So why am I interviewing the 5%ers?

After hearing about a few of my students in the Disciplined FX Scalping Course either taking or preparing to take a challenge with this firm, I decided to do some research.

Even though there’s a lot of information about the 5%ers advice for passing their prop trading challenges on their own blog, I wanted to talk to someone, face to face, to find out what separates the traders who pass and stay with the firm for the long term from those who are stuck in a cycle of challenge failure and retries.

I’m not exaggerating when I say that this interview with Rubin completely hit home for me on some of the key risk management principles and by the time we were down chatting, I felt so much clarity on what successful risk management looks like for their specific prop trading model. (Hint, it has nothing to do with whether you’re a scalper or a day trader). But I’m going to stop right here and let Rubin’s ideas tell the story.

Hope you enjoy!