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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Tweets of the Week: 3/20/15

Top Trading Tweets of the Week: 3/20/15   Stocks Open Sharply Higher On Increasing Macroeconomic Uncertainty, Unprecedented Geopolitical Risk — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) March 20, 2015 “Time of maximum pessimism is best time to buy, and time of maximum optimism is best time to sell.” John Templeton. pic.twitter.com/M1TTHG7A1A — Ed Matts (@EdMatts) March 15,

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The Power of System Diversification

Are You Diversified? Investopedia describes diversification as “A risk management technique that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio” that “strives to smooth out unsystematic risk events” “so that the positive performance of some investments will neutralize the negative performance of others.” I personally think of it as the process of combining multiple

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Top Tweets of the Week 3/13/15

Top Trading Tweets of the Week 3/13/15   Wall Street Firm Develops New High-Speed Algorithm Capable Of Performing Over 10,000 Ethical Violations Per Second http://t.co/L2DISRRkiB — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) March 13, 2015 Don't smoke. I did. Wish I never had. LLAP — Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy) January 11, 2015 CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME EXCEPT WHEN OTHER ASSETS PROVIDE HIGHER RISK ADJUSTED YIELDS CONTROLLING FOR LIQUIDITY PREFERENCES B — Wu-Tang Financial (@Wu_Tang_Finance) March 7,

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