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.

Scott O’Neil on the Dangers of Emotional Trading

Many traders are not undone in their trading by their method or system. No, when the adrenaline starts pumping and the heart starts pounding bad decisions are made. Pride, Fear, Greed, and Hope are some of the most dangerous traders you will ever trade against. These emotions scream at the trader: “Don’t stop your loss! […]

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Rich Trader’s 18 Principles for Trading Success

Here are the 18 principles of successful trading that I have learned from the study of rich traders and my own successful trading in the markets over the past 30+ years. Some of these principles will seem counter intuitive and may leave new traders scratching their heads until they fully understand what they really mean.

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The 10 Elements of Successful Trading

In trading you have heard that bulls make money, bears make money, but pigs get slaughtered. Here is a more expanded truth: Traders that have the right mind set, money management, and winning method make money, those that are missing even one of the three, will eventually ‘blow up’ their account. This applies to both

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The best pieces of trading advice

Here is some great trading advice I have gathered around the web. These were either answers from real traders to the question “What is the best trading advice you ever received?” Or it was advice given be successful traders when asked “What one piece of advice would you give to traders?”  There are some gems

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