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.

Why Traders Lose Their Money

22 Bad Trading Habits

Here are the best answers from my Facebook trading group when I posted the following question: What is one of your bad trading habits that causes you to lose money? Underestimating the possibility of volatility expansion at times and taking too big a position size. Overly optimistic that the market will trend well… only to reverse.

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5 Great Chart Patterns

$IBB double bottom with positive divergences pic.twitter.com/OWSJSE6qhU — stt2318 (@stt2318) March 21, 2016 Great chart from @JKrinskyMKM https://t.co/sDhtUBYago pic.twitter.com/vLw95yYOHI — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) March 21, 2016 $BAC appears to be putting in an INVERSE H&S pattern … worth watching this one pic.twitter.com/M6DwmREDQu — traderstewie (@traderstewie) March 20, 2016 $TRAN bullish trend pic.twitter.com/6erwSVuAvs — BullishChartPatterns

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