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.

Option Traders 7 Common Mistakes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           “Fish see the bait, but not the hook; men see the profit, but not the peril.“ -Chinese proverb Options are both one of the greatest wealth building tools ever created and a quick way to lose all your trading capital if you over leverage and disregard the odds of your trade. Options can literally

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Don’t be Fooled: Here is What Successful Trading is Not:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            A lot of trading is counter intuitive when it comes to price action. Also a lot of things that new traders see leads them to believe that there is some magic short cut to success. If trading was really as easy as so many subscription services try to sell it as then there

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The 10 Mental Errors That New Traders Make

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The weakest link to any trading strategy is the trader that is executing it. It is usually the mental and emotional errors of the trader that cause 90% of traders to lose money. Trading success is determined more by the mindset of the trader, than their skills with math, economics, or macro knowledge. The

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The World’s Real Reserve Currency

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Before there was the U.S Dollar acting as the world’s reserve currency there was an almost universally accepted form of money since the beginning of recorded history: GOLD. Paper currencies were originally pegged to gold to give them value. The bearer of the originally paper currencies could exchange it for precious metals, that

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