Author name: Steve Burns

After a lifelong fascination with financial markets, Steve began investing in 1993 and trading his accounts in 1995. It was love at first trade. After more than 30 successful years in the markets, Steve now dedicates his time to helping traders improve their psychology and profitability. New Trader U offers an extensive blog resource with more than 4,000 original articles, online courses, and best-selling books covering various topics.

Top Trading Tweets of the Week 4/1/16

How we've received the Non Farm Payrolls report, by year:https://t.co/VqHx7Dje5V pic.twitter.com/lhH4K8LHB1 — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) April 1, 2016 It remains a central bankers market. pic.twitter.com/DZ9X2smIg8 — Northy (@NorthmanTrader) March 29, 2016 Detroit neighborhood falling into ruin as seen via Google street view and Bing 2009-2014 pic.twitter.com/cW8x2COMBd — Northy (@NorthmanTrader) March 28, 2016 "the market

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Why Traders Lose Their Money

22 Bad Trading Habits

Here are the best answers from my Facebook trading group when I posted the following question: What is one of your bad trading habits that causes you to lose money? Underestimating the possibility of volatility expansion at times and taking too big a position size. Overly optimistic that the market will trend well… only to reverse.

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