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.

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Discretionary Versus Systematic Trading

The difference between traders that rely on their instincts and chart reading abilities and those who are pure system traders. Discretionary Traders… …trade information flow. …are trying to anticipate what the market will do. …are subjective; they read their own opinions and past experiences into the current market action. …trade what they want and have

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Tweets of the Week: 3/20/15

Top Trading Tweets of the Week: 3/20/15   Stocks Open Sharply Higher On Increasing Macroeconomic Uncertainty, Unprecedented Geopolitical Risk — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) March 20, 2015 “Time of maximum pessimism is best time to buy, and time of maximum optimism is best time to sell.” John Templeton. pic.twitter.com/M1TTHG7A1A — Ed Matts (@EdMatts) March 15,

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The Power of System Diversification

Are You Diversified? Investopedia describes diversification as “A risk management technique that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio” that “strives to smooth out unsystematic risk events” “so that the positive performance of some investments will neutralize the negative performance of others.” I personally think of it as the process of combining multiple

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