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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Ten Types of Trading Animals

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 The Bear- This trading animal believes the market will be going down and plays the short side. Bears think that a market is going to be very red. The Bull- This trading animal is very optimistic that the market will be green. Bulls love to buy and believe their screen will be full of

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The 5 Things I Had To Overcome to be a Profitable Trader

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  My journey through the financial markets span now over twenty years I was an ‘investor’ more than a trader for the first  part of that journey . I had my start in mutual funds then went into index ETFs and  individual stocks, in recent years I have traded options as well expanding my ways

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Twenty Reasons Why My Trading is Profitable

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Here are twenty things I do that make my trading profitable over the long term. I focus on trading only a few ETFs and stocks each year and focus my efforts in how to best capture any trend that emerges from one of them. I keep a very small watch list and remove

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The Four Pillars To Trading Success

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Thanks to George Boncoraglio for posting the four pillars in my facebook trading group. I hope my expansion does it justice. The four pillars of success: Know yourself  Traders need to know what type of trading will fit their personality and risk tolerance. Some traders are patient and make excellent trend followers others engjoy

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