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.

SPY 200-day Moving Average Strategy

SPY 200-day Moving Average Strategy (Beats Buy and Hold)

Buy and hold investing is the strategy of buying a diversified portfolio of stocks using mutual funds or ETFs and holding them for the long-term. The normal hold time for buy and hold can be from 30 to 40 years. The strategy uses the historical returns for the U.S. stock market as its backtest. The

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Michael Burry’s Worrying Recession Warning (White-Collar Job Bubble)

Inflation is high, interest rates are rising, the consumer is going deeper into debt to keep up with the cost of living. Corporate profits continue to decline with drops in consumer discretionary spending and increasing labor, energy, and borrowing costs for business. Michael Burry predicted all of these things in the past 3 years. In

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Paul Tudor Jones: We are getting ready to deploy our recession playbook

Paul Tudor Jones: We are getting ready to deploy our recession playbook

Paul Tudor Jones became famous after appearing in the PBS documentary The Trader in 1987 where he anticipated a stock market crash. He used stock index futures to triple his capital under management during the Black Monday crash in 1987 with large short positions while most other traders were ruined or suffered huge losses. His

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Becoming a Millionaire: Roth IRA vs 401K (What makes the most profit)

Becoming a Millionaire: Roth IRA vs 401K (What makes the most profit)

Roth IRAs and traditional 401K accounts are designed to enable people to save money in investment accounts by offering tax advantages. These retirement accounts were meant to replace the defined employer pension plans of the past. With a pension plan an employee received a defined payment every month from their employer based on years of

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10 Levels of Financial Independence And Early Retirement

10 Levels of Financial Independence And Early Retirement (How to Retire Early)

In the FIRE movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early) there are 10 levels generally considered the journey from financial dependence to financial abundance. It can help psychologically to look at achieving financial independence as steps to new levels, one at a time. It is easier to focus on the next level than to see how far

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