Online Course: Market Strategies

INSTRUCTOR

• The course will be conducted by Deepak Mohoni (B.Tech IIT-K; MBA IIM-C), well-known market analyst who coined the word sensex.
  
• Deepak wrote the widely followed technical analysis columns in the Economic Times and Business World. He has also appeared on several TV channels including ET Now, CNBC TV18, BTVi, BBC, NDTV Profit, Zee Business, Aaj Tak, Star TV and Doordarshan, and has been interviewed regularly by many papers including Financial Times and Asahi Shimbun.
  
• He has held over 150 workshops for investors, and in-house workshops for several companies including ICICI Securities, DSP Merrill, Kotak Securities and Motilal Oswal, and institutions including IIT Kanpur, IIM Ahmedabad, Symbiosis and NIBM.

THE ANTICOURSE©

• The anticourse will start as soon as you register. Short, light and informative reading material and video clips from authoritative internet sources will be sent to you, with Deepak's comments.
• This material will help in gaining a deeper understanding of the concepts that would be covered in the main course.
• There will also be live paper games involving the stockmarket.
• We will also provide short lessons (for those who need them) in the mathematics and statistics required for investing and trading computations.
• The anti in anticourse is Italian for before. eg. antipasto - an appetiser served before the main meal (see picture).

UNDERSTANDING MARKETS

• We will look at some of the theories which explain the movement of stockmarket prices, including the work of the three economists who shared the Nobel Prize in 2013, as they have contrasting explanations.
• The course will also cover mathematical models of the market, particularly the fractal view of Mandelbrot, and covered by Taleb.
• The randomness of future prices will be of particular importance, as all strategies must recognise the element of chance.
• The impact of the US Fed, other central banks, interest rates and inflation.
• We will also study how to measure the performance of portfolios and trading systems.

TRADING STRATEGIES

• The course will give you a strong understanding of trading, with all the necessary preparation that goes into it.
• Day-trading, Swing trading, Momentum trading, Futures and Options.
• Technical Analysis - the good, the bad and the ugly.
• Trade entry and exit strategies.
• Risk and Money Management.
• Understanding volatility.
• Designing Trading Systems.
• A brief look at commodities, currencies as well as bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

INVESTING STRATEGIES

• Why everyone must invest forever, and the many ways of doing it.
• Different investment strategies ranging from passive to active.
• Unit cost averaging (also known as Systematic Investment Plan and Dollar Cost Averaging) strategies.
• A gentle introduction to valuations and value investing.
• Portfolio management.
• Stock switching and portfolio rebalancing strategies.
• Momentum investing, and other price based strategies.
• Peter Lynch's Invest in what you know strategy.
• William O'Neil's CAN SLIM strategy.

PSYCHOLOGY

• Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman's System 1 (fast) and System 2 (slow) thinking, and how it affects trading decisions.


• Crowd Psychology : Understanding bubbles.


• Invalid beliefs that many traders assume about markets.


• How greed, fear and regret adversely affect decision making.


• The influence of media.

PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK

(From past workshops)
SB: Excellent. My view has been changed after attending the program
SD: Its highly informative. It will be of great help for the new investor/trader
PV: Very practical, useful for actual trading, not just theory. Just what I wanted!
DC: Extremely thought provoking, will definitely lead to changes in my trading strategy and hopefully an expansion in profits. Loved every minute of being at the workshop
MS: Good. Certainly got the new tricks of trading risk and money management
AL: All the topics covered were very simply made to understand. I got a very clear picture about stocks
AH: Highly educative, very well organised. It was an experience to get the intelligence of a great analyst directly from horse's mouth

HOW TO REGISTER

To register, please fill the form below with your payment details.

Fees (including GST): Rs. 33,000. Early Bird : Rs. 25,000 upto March 5

The payment should be made by direct transfer to the following account :
Trendwatch (India) Private Limited
ICICI Bank, Current Account Number : 000505002075
Bund Garden Branch, PUNE
IFSC code: ICIC0000005. Branch code: 000005