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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Trading: Getting Results While Ignoring the Noise

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            New traders have to learn what to be concerned about and what to ignore. Trading is about managing risk, the right psychology, growth and development, a good trading plan, a robust method, and reacting to what the market is actually doing instead of trying to predict what it will do. To many new

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Overcoming 10 of the Pains in Trading

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Trading is not all fun and games. Traders do not make money on every trade, most don’t even make money on half their trades. It is not like other careers, jobs, or hobbies where you work and then get paid. Our pursuit is more like the life of an entrepreneur. Our idea may

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Traders Top 12 Favorite Trading Blogs

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  I conducted a poll titled “What is your favorite trading Blog?”  looking for the top trading blogs online. I was trying to get the poll out there and have some diverse voting. I looked around online to find other top trading blog lists to build my original poll. Thanks to everyone who cast a vote and

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A Trader’s Real Opponent

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                The day the trader stops blaming the markets, politicians, or ‘They’ and ‘Them’ for losses and starts taking responsibility for their own trading could be the day that they begin to change from losing money to making money. In the end the market is like the ocean and we are the surfer, we choose

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