Trading Risk Management 101

Most traders focus on finding the next hot setup.
Professionals focus on one thing: survival.If you don’t control your risk, the market will do it for you — and the cost is your account.
Trading Risk Management 101 is your blueprint for protecting capital, mastering position sizing, and building a trading plan that can withstand losing streaks, volatility, and emotion.
What You’ll Learn
This course will teach you how to:
✅ Calculate risk–reward ratios on every trade — so you only take setups with math on your side.
✅ Place intelligent stop losses that protect your account and keep you objective.
✅ Size every position precisely using proven formulas, not guesswork.
✅ Apply the 1% rule to keep losses survivable and your confidence intact.
✅ Understand the risk of ruin — the math that separates traders who last from those who blow up.
✅ Diversify and de-correlate your trades to avoid portfolio-wide losses.
✅ Use cash strategically — when doing nothing is the smartest move you can make.
✅ Build your personal risk rituals that turn good habits into automatic discipline.
Included with the Course
🎯 14 Printable Handouts & Worksheets
Put theory into practice with easy-to-use tools:
- Risk checklist
- Position size calculator
- Risk–reward calculator
- Stop-loss and trailing stop planners
- Diversification tracker
- Drawdown and recovery table
- Loss reflection and performance review sheets
📊 Excel Calculators
Auto-calculate your trade size, risk–reward ratios, and recovery percentages instantly.
🧠 Lifetime Access + Self-Paced Learning
Revisit any lesson, anytime, to keep your risk management skills sharp.
Who This Course Is For
This course is for:
- New traders who want to protect capital from costly mistakes.
- Intermediate traders who are profitable but inconsistent.
- Experienced traders ready to refine their process and systematize risk.
If you’ve ever felt anxious placing trades, oversized positions, or held losers too long, this course will reset how you think about trading forever.
What Makes It Different
Most trading courses teach what to buy.
This one teaches how not to go broke.
You’ll learn the principles that every professional uses — the same risk frameworks applied by hedge funds and full-time traders around the world. This isn’t theory. It’s practical, structured, and immediately usable.
Your Instructors
Steve Burns — 30-year market veteran and bestselling author of more than 25 trading books.
Holly Burns — trading psychology educator and co-creator of New Trader University.
Together, they’ve helped thousands of traders develop discipline, consistency, and control in the markets.
Your Trading Career Starts With Survival
Trading Risk Management 101 gives you the foundation every trader needs before chasing profits.
Once you can control risk, everything else in trading gets easier.
🎓 Enroll now and learn how to think like a professional trader — one decision, one risk, one rule at a time.