295 · Steve Ruffley - Animal Speed, Size, and Being Right at the Right Time

Chat With Traders

Tessa Dao

Education, Business, Investing

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Steve Ruffley transitioned from a highly competitive trading floor environment to trading professionally as a retail trader. His entrance into trading was unplanned - a mix of ambition, timing, and the right connections. After leaving university early, he took a finance job and then moved to Gibraltar, where he met traders running a new trading floor. Intrigued, he joined their intense graduate program, enduring six weeks of brutal tests where failure meant dismissal. The trading floor was an adrenaline-fueled world - rows of screens, high-stakes trades, and a culture of camaraderie and competition. This experience undoubtedly shaped his trading mindset, philosophy, and technique, where risk is not a dirty word, and size and speed are essential. Steve is also a trading mentor and the author of his latest book, “The Pro Retail Trader”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Chat with Traders is brought to you by Trade the Pool.
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1:03.0	Trading in the financial markets involves a risk of loss.
1:06.5	Podcast episodes and other content produced by chat with traders are for informational or educational
1:12.1	purposes only and do not constitute trading or investment recommendations or advice.
1:18.8	You can't focus too much on what you don't and never may understand. Yeah, lots of things
1:25.0	are going to be said, lots of things are going to happen. But is that
1:27.5	going to make you money? Not necessarily. You know, there's lots of things happening in the world
1:31.7	and there's lots of things happening throughout trading. And I've seen it, you know, change in front
1:35.7	of my very eyes. You know, I've seen the media and it's attitude how it presents data change.
1:40.7	Everything you see, no, it doesn't have to necessarily be taking a pinch of salt, but it's not necessarily there to make you money. So the best thing you can do as a trader or a
1:48.5	retail trader is kind of fade out a little bit of this news. You know, look at the screens.
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