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Behavioral Finance: The Investor's Mind
Understand the systematic psychological biases that cause investors to make irrational decisions. Learn to recognize anchoring, loss aversion, herd behavior, and other cognitive traps — and develop strategies to overcome them.
Before this course
These cover the assumed background. You can start here anyway — nothing is locked.
Lessons in this course
Work through them in order, or jump to whichever fits where you are. Every lesson is free and saves your progress locally.
- 01Anchoring: The Number That Hijacks Your Judgment
- 02Confirmation Bias: Seeing What You Want to See
- 03Loss Aversion: Why Losses Hurt Twice as Much
- 04Herd Behavior: Following the Crowd Off a Cliff
- 05Overconfidence: The Most Dangerous Bias
- 06Recency Bias: The Tyranny of Recent Events
- 07Sunk Cost Fallacy: Throwing Good Money After Bad
- 08Mental Accounting: The Invisible Buckets
- 09Home Bias: The Provincial Portfolio
- 10Narrative Fallacy: When Stories Beat Statistics
- 11Disposition Effect: Selling Winners, Holding Losers
- 12Naive Diversification: The 1/N Trap
- 13Tax-Loss Harvesting: When the Math Beats the Brain