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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Ten Things Traders Need to Start Doing to Make Money

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Ten Things Traders Need to Start Doing to Make Money Take stop losses when they are hit, holding and hoping drains your money and your emotions. Never enter a trade without and exit plan, you need a stop loss for losing trades or a trailing stop for winning trades, and possible target areas where […]

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The Missing Key To Trading Success That Few Understand

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Everyone has heard to “Let winners run and cut your losers short”  but what does that mean? The core of this statement is positive expectancy. If you trade a system that has a positive expectancy then you will make money the same way that casinos make

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7 Good Reasons Why Traders Should be on Social Media

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Here are seven reasons why being on twitter, facebook, stock twits, Linked-In, tumblr, YouTube, Amazon, and Google+  may be a very valuable use of our time as traders, if we are doing it right. Trading Buddies: Traders primarily come to social media for camaraderie. Today’s trading from home leaves a void that use to

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