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 One Thing that Most New Traders Just Never ‘GET’

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Many of the new traders that leave the markets with a bad experience are the ones that could never grasp the concept of reacting to what is currently happening in the markets versus their desire to know what is going to happen. The new traders that look for gurus to predict the future,

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10 Things Traders Confuse with Success

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Many new traders deceive themselves. They celebrate small wins. They look for the magic solution to making money through a fail safe system. They believe a seminar or newsletter will change their life completely. The mistake trading for easy money and coaches and gurus for having that secret recipe for success. Well, there is

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Why BIG trades are a BAD idea.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       There is one huge difference between the winners and the losers in the market. New traders tend to go ‘all in’ on trades they are just sure will be winners. If a new trader wants to be around long enough to be a rich trader they better manage their risk per trade. Here is

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Why Traders Must Play Championship Defense.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Many championship sports team became champions by building the best defenses in their league. Why focus on defense? Why not focus on scoring points and offense? In sports I believe it is much easier to avoid your opponent from scoring in the first place than to have to play catch up. If a defense

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