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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A Trader’s 10 Worst Enemies

A trader’s best friends are risk management, a winning trading system, perseverance, self control, and passion. Here are a trader’s worst enemies: Stubbornness: Not cutting losses and sticking with trades that are not working. Arrogance: Believing that you are smarter than the majority of market participants for no apparent reason. Competence must come before confidence.

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The RIGHT Way To Use The 200 Day Moving Average

  This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. Last week the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed below the 200 day moving average for the first time since 2016. And

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You Can Have an Emotional Advantage Over the Markets

“I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control, with the least important consideration being the question of where you buy and sell.”– Tom Basso The financial markets are strange environments. Unexpected events commonly occur while the sure thing rarely happens. The best times to buy low is usually

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