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Behavioural Finance: Overcome Your Emotions and Build Wealth

Name: Behavioural Finance: Overcome Your Emotions and Build Wealth
Rating: 4.8 (39 reviews)

Master investor psychology, avoid costly biases, and build a disciplined system for smart investing and wealth creation

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Created byCol (Dr) Shabbar Shahid. M-Tech, MBA(Fin), CE, FIE(I), PhD

Last updated 6/2026

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What you'll learn

Understand what Behavioral Finance is and how it differs from traditional finance
Identify common emotional biases like fear, greed, overconfidence, herd behavior, and loss aversion
Learn about heuristics and mental shortcuts that lead to flawed financial decisions
Explore real-world case studies including the 2008 Financial Crisis and market bubbles
Gain practical strategies to recognize and reduce irrational financial behavior
Improve your ability to make sound, data-driven, and psychologically aware decisions
Develop a resilient investment mindset to avoid common traps that lead to financial disaster

Course content

5 sections • 23 lectures • 3h 3m total length

Welcome Note1:08
Engage with a welcoming introduction to behavioral finance, enhancing your knowledge of the psychology of money management with flexible pacing for global learners.
Promo5:30
Explore behavioral finance and how emotions and collective psychology shape financial decisions and markets, with real-world examples of panics, rumors, and market volatility.
Preview2:33
Examine how behavioral finance shapes decision making through cognitive biases, mental accounting, and key emotions, then apply a rational investment framework to overcome adverse effects and build wealth.
What is Behavioral Finance?5:05
Explore behavioral finance, where emotions shape money decisions and affect profits, not accounting. Learn to recognize behavioral pitfalls to avoid losses and improve budgets and forecasts.
Why Behavior affects Finance but not Accounting?8:27
Explore how behavior shapes finance while accounting stays objective, and see how emotions and sentiments drive financial decisions in behavioral finance.
Prospect Theory and the Origin of Behavioral Finance14:15
Prospect theory explains the origin of behavioral finance by showing how loss aversion, reference dependence, and diminishing sensitivity shape money decisions.
Relevance and Application of Behavioral Finance in today's Financial World13:19
Explore how behavioral finance explains how fear, greed, and media influence shape investment choices, and learn practical strategies to apply psychology to personal finance and advisory roles.
Gurudakshina1:07
Rate and review the course by selecting stars deliberately, write a brief message, and save your feedback through the provided windows to support the instructor.

Understanding Cognitive Bias.9:55
Explore how cognitive bias and emotions steer financial decisions by examining how the brain quickly makes decisions from embedded memories, and how awareness can improve rationality.
Types of Cognitive Biases. Part 1..Confirmation Bias and Anchoring Bias.9:14
Explore how confirmation bias and anchoring bias shape financial decisions, revealing how people seek confirmatory information and anchor on first data, with real-world investment examples.
Loss Aversion, Overconfidence and Band wagon Effect. Types of Cognitive Part 2.8:09
Loss aversion drives investors to sell gains and reinvest in losses, while overconfidence, herd behavior, and poor hedging bias decisions and risk management, increasing losses.
Present Bias or Parabolic Discounting. Types of Cognitive Bias Part 313:56
Identify present bias or hyperbolic discounting as preferring immediate rewards over future gains, and recognize its symptoms, causes, and impact on investing and retirement planning.
Recency Bias, Status quo and Endowment Effect. Types of Cognitive Bias Part 412:40
Learn how recency bias weighs recent events more than the past, and how status quo bias favors keeping things unchanged. Explore hindsight bias and its impact on investing decisions.
Mental accounting, Status quo and Availability bias. Types of CB part 511:55
Explore mental accounting, availability bias, and the endowment effect within behavioral finance, and learn practical guardrails—enhanced knowledge, pause before decisions, seek professional advice, and use data-driven tools.
Trading the Line: Balancing Emotion and Strategy in Market Turmoil

Primary Human Emotions. An Introduction8:40
Fear, Greed, Hope, Regret, Confidence, Ego. How they affect Financial Decisions?13:06
Observe fear driving hoarding and panic selling in finances, while greed pushes risk-taking; hope sustains loss-making bets, and regret causes indecision; pride, confidence, and ego distort judgment.
Some more Human Emotions and how to Guard against them.12:44
Explore how anxiety triggers decision paralysis in financial choices, alongside fear, greed, guilt, and other emotions, and learn practical guardrails like planning, automation, goals, and education to support rational investments.

Rational Investment Framework. Part 11:54
learn the rational investing framework to avoid cognitive biases, emotions, and heuristics that derail decisions, using the replace framework: rules, education, a cause, long-term vision, automation, a checklist, and enjoyment.
Rational Investment Framework. Part 28:23
Learn to invest with personal rules, education, and pause: commit to a fixed percentage via SIP, avoid tips, review quarterly, resist panic selling and euphoric buying for a long-term strategy.
Rational Investment Framework. Part 37:20
Automate key financial decisions—monthly investing, savings, credit card bill payments, insurance premiums, long-term investments, and utilities—then use a checklist to guard against emotions and biases.
Gurudakshina1:07
Quiz on Behavioral Finance
BONUS2:06
Download the complete course presentation pdf as a ready handout, plus a coupon pdf, and learn how to contact the instructor or leave a rating.

Requirements

Though not a pre-requisite, Basic knowledge of Finance would help understand this subject better

Description

Why do intelligent investors make irrational financial decisions?

Welcome to “Behavioral Finance: Decoding Psychology of Money Management,” a practical and insightful course that reveals the psychological traps, cognitive biases, and emotional factors that influence how we manage money.

If you've ever asked yourself:

Why do investors panic during market crashes?
Why do people chase risky assets during market booms?
Why do smart people make poor financial choices, even when they have all the data?

This course has the answers. It combines behavioral psychology, investment science, and real-world case studies to help you make more informed, rational, and confident financial decisions.

What You Will Learn:

What Behavioral Finance is and how it differs from traditional finance
Key cognitive biases like Confirmation Bias, Anchoring, Overconfidence, Loss Aversion, Herd Mentality, and more
Mental shortcuts (heuristics) that distort investment decisions
How emotions like fear and greed sabotage rational investing
Real-life examples and case studies of financial misjudgments
Strategies to overcome irrational behavior and improve money management
How to develop a psychologically aware and resilient investment mindset

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is perfect for:

Retail Investors looking to improve their financial decision-making
Finance and MBA Students who want to understand the human side of markets
Financial Advisors & Wealth Managers helping clients through emotional investing
Traders and Portfolio Managers aiming to avoid cognitive traps
Psychology and Finance Enthusiasts curious about behavioral economics and decision science

About the Instructor:

This course is taught by Col (Dr) Shabbar Shahid, a disciplined Army veteran, MBA (Finance) topper, and Doctorate in Management. With decades of teaching experience and a track record as a Distinguished Instructor, he delivers insights in a clear, practical, and engaging manner.

Why Enroll in This Course?

Gain clarity on financial behavior that most investors overlook
Learn to identify and manage emotional investing
Boost your ability to make sound, data-driven investment decisions
Apply behavioral insights across stock markets, crypto, personal finance, and more
Stay ahead in volatile markets by recognizing bias before it costs you money

End Result & Key Takeaways:

By the end of this course, you will:

Understand how psychology affects investment behavior
Recognize your own biases and blind spots
Apply behavioral finance principles to reduce risk and improve returns
Become a more rational, confident, and successful investor

Important Note: This course is educational and not focused on tips or quick profits. The goal is to equip you with lasting decision-making frameworks based on behavioral science.

Who this course is for:

Finance Professionals
Accountants
Retail Investors seeking to improve personal investment outcomes
Finance and MBA Students wanting to understand the human side of financial markets
Financial Advisors and Wealth Managers aiming to guide clients through emotional market cycles
Traders and Portfolio Managers who want to reduce impulsive or biased decisions
Anyone interested in behavioral psychology, decision-making, and financial literacy

Behavioural Finance: Overcome Your Emotions and Build Wealth

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Course content

Introduction to Behavioral Finance8 lectures • 51min

Aspects of Human Mind which affect Financial Decision7 lectures • 1hr 6min

Primary Human Emotions and their effect on our Financial Decisions3 lectures • 35min

Heuristics in Financial Decisions1 lecture • 11min

Rational Investment Framework5 lectures • 21min

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