Behavioral Finance &
Technical Analysis
New
3-Days Workshop
May / October 2025
Workshop Description
Basic Course Offering (Virtual, Group Format):
- Standard fees: 1020 Euros
- Discounted fees (Participants from M&S Research Hub list of developing countries): 640 Euros
- Early-bird discount (1 Month in advance): 20% discount
This 3-day course has dual objectives. first to explore how psychological factors influence financial decision-making and examine methods for analyzing and predicting market trends. This course will bridge traditional financial theories with insights into human behavior, equipping you with skills to understand and manage biases, interpret financial data, and apply technical analysis tools for better investment strategies. Through case studies, practical applications, and hands-on sessions, you’ll gain a comprehensive view of market dynamics and investor behavior.
This course builds on the concepts presented in the introductory Derivatives training, introducing essential aspects of Technical Analysis, including key patterns and trading strategies.
Workshop Content
Day 1 – Trading Psychology and Cognitive Biases
I. Common Trading Fallacies: discuss how cognitive biases and fallacies can impact trading decisions, using relatable examples to enhance understanding. For each fallacy:
Gambler’s Fallacy – Teleological Fallacy – Ludic Fallacy – Narrative Fallacy – Hindsight Bias – Outcome Bias – Confirmation Bias – Halo Effect – Herd Behavior – Overconfidence
II. Fooled by Probabilities
Provide practical examples to demonstrate the limitations and misinterpretations of probabilities in trading, such as randomness, sample sizes, and variance and how they can impact trading assumptions.
Day 2 – Technical Analysis I
I. Introduction to Charts; discuss how charts represent price action and introduce key elements.
- Trends & Trendlines – Explain trend analysis, including identifying uptrends, downtrends, and consolidation.
- Moving Averages – Describe moving averages as indicators of market direction and volatility, introducing simple and exponential moving averages.
- Support & Resistance Levels – Define these levels as critical markers in trading and show how they can influence price movement.
II. Candlesticks
III. Indicators
IV. Major Oscillators
Day 3 – Technical Analysis II
I. Patterns; introduce chart patterns as indicators of market psychology and potential reversals or continuations.
- Head & Shoulders – Describe this reversal pattern and its trading implications.
- Triangles and Wedges – Explain symmetrical, asymmetrical, and wedge patterns for trend continuation or reversal.
II. Reversal Trading
III. Gaps
IV. Market Profile
V. Best FX Strategies
VI. Cover a range of practical trading strategies:
- The Blade Runner & Reversal Trades – Explain the importance of price action in defining entry/exit points.
- Daily Fibonacci Pivot & Overlapping Fibonacci Trades – Introduce Fibonacci-based levels for potential trade setups.
- London Hammer & The Pop/Drop ‘n’ Stop Trades – Discuss region-specific and breakout strategies.
- Forex Fractal – Present this strategy’s focus on market structure and cyclical behavior
Meet The
Moderator
Antonis is a finance professional specializing in structuring and pricing complex investment products. Currently, he is the Deputy Director of Treasury & Capital Markets at Attica Bank, Athens. Previously, he worked as an Investment Products Trader at Piraeus Bank included designing, pricing and hedging structured products, such as Capital Guaranteed Deposits and Notes, Convertibles and Exotics. He also held positions in the Capital Markets industry of major domestic financial institutions, such as MARFIN Bank, demonstrating outstanding integrity and achievements.
Benefits
- Workshop material, datasets, and software codes will be freely available to participants.
- Earn MSR certified certificate and enhance your career and research skills.
- Learn one of the emerging and widely used approaches for econometric methods
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Live trading simulations and real-case studies of trades or scenarios are used to analyze the application of technical analysis.
- A free trial version of the used software packages will be provided for participants
Target Participants
Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners in Finance
Individuals who run or plan to start small firms focused on financial consulting, asset management, or trading advisory services.
Finance and Banking Professionals
Employees in finance roles (like analysts, portfolio managers, or investment advisors) who need a deeper understanding of technical analysis and trading strategies.
Aspiring Traders and Individual Investors
Individuals who want to start trading or improve their trading skills, including retail investors and hobbyists.
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