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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The Trend Commandments

The Trend Commandments

Michael Covel has written an easy to read and understand book entitled “Trend Commandments: Trading for Exceptional Returns” FT Press, that condenses and explains the principles of successful trend followers. This book is based on the author’s extensive 15-year study of the world’s top trend following traders such as Ed Seykota, Paul Tudor Jones, the

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Discretionary Versus Systematic Trading

The difference between traders that rely on their instincts and chart reading abilities and those who are pure system traders. Discretionary Traders… …trade information flow. …are trying to anticipate what the market will do. …are subjective; they read their own opinions and past experiences into the current market action. …trade what they want and have

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