Author name: Steve Burns

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           There is only one way to avoid losing trades: Quit trading. If you want to keep trading then you will have many losing trades on your path to profits. Learn to accept them and not emotionally over react to any one losing trade. Here is how I do it: 10 Reasons I Do Not […]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            In the past few years I have been on social media I have had the privilege of  interacting with many great traders. Some communication has been through facebook messages, some through my trading group, others on twitter. Here are the traders that I have witnessed make profitable trades on a consistent basis through

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Many of the new traders that leave the markets with a bad experience are the ones that could never grasp the concept of reacting to what is currently happening in the markets versus their desire to know what is going to happen. The new traders that look for gurus to predict the future,

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Many new traders deceive themselves. They celebrate small wins. They look for the magic solution to making money through a fail safe system. They believe a seminar or newsletter will change their life completely. The mistake trading for easy money and coaches and gurus for having that secret recipe for success. Well, there is

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       There is one huge difference between the winners and the losers in the market. New traders tend to go ‘all in’ on trades they are just sure will be winners. If a new trader wants to be around long enough to be a rich trader they better manage their risk per trade. Here is

Ten Benefits of Trading the S&P 500 Index: You do not have to diversify with multiple stocks for equity exposure, the index is already diversified. The risk of any one stock having something catastrophic happen will not really hurt your trade. No one stock has more than a 3% weighting.  The S&P 500 is much

Last week Thursday rocked the bulls hitting stops and making everyone think that was the yearly top, it ended up running the full trading range breaking from a new all time high and falling all the way back to the 20 day but holding. Then Friday it moved wildly after the payroll report in the

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Many championship sports team became champions by building the best defenses in their league. Why focus on defense? Why not focus on scoring points and offense? In sports I believe it is much easier to avoid your opponent from scoring in the first place than to have to play catch up. If a defense