Introduction

Claradan Workshops

Claradan sets itself apart from its peers by bringing the subject of behavioural analysis alive through its experiences of successfully applying this knowledge to real situations and solutions over many years. Claradan’s series of Applied Behavioural Finance workshops is the result of this work.

The trading series is the product of over 25 years trading in London, Dubai and Tokyo in a variety of products. The application and utilisation of behavioural knowledge in individual performance management and development as well as in the identification of market trends and opportunities.

Claradan has published financial market analysis from a behavioural perspective for several years and this content can be found online:

FT Alphaville, Twitter, Linkedin, Claradan’s View Blog as well as industry publications.

Claradan’s business applications of Behavioural Finance are derived from its consultancy work in a variety of areas including; Software, Tax Advisory, Accountancy, Financial Services and Commercial Property.

 

Intermediate Technical Anlaysis

 

Course Outline

 

• Why use Technical Analysis - why not just use fundamentals?

         - How investor psychology and other factors affect market price in addition to fundamental data

• Dow Theory and review of introductory course - trends, levels and pattern recognition

          - Dow Theory forms the foundation of Western technical analysis.

          - Dow’s basic tenets and reviews the important basics from the introductory course.

          - How to recognise support and resistance levels, definition of trends and channels

           - An explanation of how to recognise continuation and reversal price patterns.

• Identifying price targets using Fibonacci & Gann retracements and projections

  - Prices move in waves. This section explains how to identify potential support or resistance levels as trends either pull-back or extend towards new highs or lows.

• Rule-based trading using Moving Averages and MACD

          - Moving averages are the basis for many automated trading algorithms

          - The pro’s and con’s of using moving averages

• Anticipating market turns with momentum analysis (RSI, Stochastics, Momentum and ROC)

         - Momentum leads price.

         - How to identify that a trend is losing momentum,

         - These oscillators provide important early warning signals that can improve market timing. 

• Identifying potential short term reversals using candlestick patterns

          - Japanese Candlestick pattern analysis is one of the oldest forms of technical analysis

          - Recognisable candlestick patterns which can be used to identify short term market sentiment

• Combining studies and indicators to generate profitable trading strategies

          - Different indicators will often give similar trading signals

          - Build an overall trading strategy.

 

Course Objectives

Learn more advanced techniques and skills to build into a trading strategy

 

Who Should Attend?

Traders, Sales, Analysts, Financial Advisers, Wealth Management, Graduates, Retail Investors, HR professionals,

 

Learning Outcomes

• Build a deeper understanding of methods and techniques of technical analysis
• Develop skills to allow combinations of techniques to be used
• Build a trading strategy

 

Contact sales@claradan.co.uk