Understanding Market Volatility Through Real Experience
Learn to navigate financial markets with confidence. Our autumn 2025 program starts October 12th and runs through March 2026, giving you practical knowledge built from actual market conditions—not just theory.
Why We Built This Program
Most finance education focuses on perfect scenarios. Markets don't work that way. After watching countless people panic during the 2024 corrections, we realized something needed to change.
This program came from sitting with clients during actual market swings. We saw what worked and what didn't. The strategies that helped people sleep at night versus the ones that kept them checking their phones at 3 AM.
You'll study real volatility patterns from the past five years. We'll look at what happened during sudden drops and unexpected rallies. And you'll practice decision-making using scenarios based on actual market days—including some pretty uncomfortable ones.
What You'll Actually Learn
Six core areas that matter when markets get messy. Each one builds on real situations we've handled with clients.
Reading Volatility Signals
Learn to spot when market movement means something versus when it's just noise. We'll use actual trading days from 2023-2025 to practice pattern recognition.
Risk Assessment Tools
Build your own framework for evaluating exposure. You'll work through case studies where we helped clients rebalance during uncertain periods.
Decision-Making Under Pressure
Practice making calls when information is incomplete. We simulate real market conditions, including those days when everyone's freaking out.
Portfolio Response Strategies
Learn when to act and when to wait. We'll analyze different responses to the same market events and discuss why some worked better than others.
Information Filtering
Cut through market commentary to find what actually matters. You'll practice evaluating news sources and distinguishing signal from panic.
Emotional Management
Understand your own reactions to market stress. We'll discuss behavioral patterns that trip people up and develop your personal coping strategies.
Who's Teaching This
Four practitioners who've spent combined decades watching markets do unexpected things. They'll share what they've learned from both wins and losses.
Declan Whitmore
Worked through three major corrections. Specializes in helping people stay rational when markets aren't.
Tavish Drummond
Built risk models for institutional clients before switching to education. Focuses on practical assessment techniques.
Ansel Rosenfeld
Studies behavioral finance patterns. Helps people understand why they make certain decisions under stress.
Fredrik Lindqvist
Twenty years analyzing volatility patterns. Teaches pattern recognition using real historical market data.
Program Starts October 2025
Classes run Sunday and Wednesday evenings, 6:30-9:00 PM Eastern. Mix of live sessions and recorded material you can review on your schedule. Enrollment opens June 2025.