Understanding and Mastering Behavioral Biases in Trading
Why can a rational trader make a bad decision? How do emotions sabotage years of expertise in seconds?
The “Psychology and Behavioral Biases in Trading” course immerses you in the fascinating world of behavioral finance. This 1.5-hour e-learning module, designed for traders, finance students, and professionals in management control and Procurement, helps you understand why and how the human brain distorts financial reality, and how to deal with it.
This program guides you step by step to:
- Become aware of the cognitive failures that influence your financial decisions;
- Understand the fundamentals of behavioral finance: heuristics, loss aversion, framing effect, overconfidence, etc.
- Adopt new concrete strategies to limit the impact of cognitive and emotional biases on your performance;
- Adapt your decision-making to real market contexts: volatility, stress, time pressure, incomplete information;
- Train yourself via an immersive simulator to identify your biases in real time and react effectively under stress;
- Validate your key knowledge with a final mega quiz, to summarize and anchor your learning.
Content structured around 6 complementary modules:
- Why our decisions deceive us Understand the emotional and cognitive issues of trading and initiate a deep rethinking.
- The fundamentals of behavioral finance Acquire the basic models: prospect theory, heuristics, system 1 / system 2.
- Techniques and best practices to counteract biases Apply concrete methods to make better decisions under pressure.
- Adapt your decisions according to context Identify biases according to profiles (novice/experienced), types of markets or time horizons.
- Pressure decision simulator Practice in realistic situations to refine your cognitive and emotional reflexes.
- Final mega quiz Consolidate all your knowledge and Validate your understanding of the subject.
At the end of this training, you will have changed your perspective on your own trading behavior. You will no longer view your decisions as purely logical processes—but as complex constructs to be deciphered, mastered, and improved.
