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Masterclass

Masterclass: Behavioral Edge, How Top Investors Manage Emotion

A masterclass for serious Indian investors who already know the list of biases and now want to beat them in practice. Instead of cataloguing errors, this course studies how top investors actually manage emotion: how they hold conviction through deep drawdowns, trim or ride winners, admit mistakes quickly, and stay still when every screen is flashing red. It draws on Buffett, Munger, Howard Marks, Soros, Druckenmiller, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Radhakishan Damani, and Parag Parikh, then converts their habits into a working behavioral operating system: decision journals, pre-mortems, written kill criteria, position sizing as emotional risk control, and a disciplined information diet. Indian crisis case studies from 2008, the 2018 small-cap collapse, March 2020, and the F&O and SME IPO mania stress-test the framework, and the final chapter covers managing family, client, and institutional emotion. Closes with a behavioral audit of your own tradebook.

Behavioral FinanceInvestor TemperamentDecision JournalsPosition SizingCrisis Case StudiesInstitutional Behavior

MODULES

6

DURATION

~4.5 hrs

TRACK

Stock Market Basics

What You'll Master

Measure the behavior gap between what your investments earned and what you actually earned

Judge decisions by process quality rather than outcomes, and stop learning the wrong lessons from luck

Hold, trim, add, or exit a position using pre-written rules instead of in-the-moment emotion

Apply the temperament habits of Buffett, Munger, Marks, Druckenmiller, Jhunjhunwala, Damani, and Parag Parikh to your own portfolio

Build a decision journal, pre-mortem routine, and kill criteria that work on an Indian brokerage workflow

Audit your own Zerodha Console or broker tradebook to diagnose your personal behavioral patterns

Access Level

LEARNER

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Everything included

Full Text Playbooks

Actionable Exercises

Mobile Reading Mode

Lifetime Updates

Curriculum Breakdown

Chapter 1: The Behavioral Edge: Why Temperament Outlasts Intelligence

3 Lessons

The Behavior Gap: What Indian Investors Lose Between Fund Returns and Their Own Returns11 min read

Emotion Is Data, Not Noise: Reading Your Own Fear and Greed as Signals10 min read

Process vs Outcome: Why Good Decisions Can Lose Money and Bad Ones Can Win11 min read

Chapter 2: The Emotional Life Cycle of a Position

4 Lessons

Conviction Under Drawdown: Holding Through a 40% Fall Without Lying to Yourself12 min read

Euphoria and the Multibagger Dilemma: When to Trim, When to Ride11 min read

Regret and Envy: The Stock You Sold Too Early and the One Your Friend Bought10 min read

Action Bias: Why Doing Nothing Is the Hardest Trade10 min read

Chapter 3: How the Masters Do It

5 Lessons

Buffett and Munger: Inversion, Circle of Competence, and the Inner Scorecard12 min read

Howard Marks and the Pendulum: Second-Level Thinking at Market Extremes11 min read

Soros and Druckenmiller: Admitting Error Fast and Sizing Up When Right11 min read

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and Radhakishan Damani: Conviction, Patience, and Silence12 min read

Parag Parikh and PPFAS: Behavioral Investing as a Fund Philosophy11 min read

Chapter 4: Building Your Behavioral Operating System

4 Lessons

The Decision Journal: What to Record Before Every Buy and Sell11 min read

Pre-Mortems, Kill Criteria, and Written Sell Rules11 min read

Position Sizing as Emotional Risk Control12 min read

Your Information Diet: Fin-Twitter, Telegram Tips, Business Channels, and Results Season10 min read

Chapter 5: Stress-Testing Temperament: Indian Crisis Case Studies

4 Lessons

2008: When Quality Stocks Fell 60% Too11 min read

Demonetisation, IL&FS, and the 2018 Small-Cap Collapse12 min read

March 2020: What Individual Investors Did and What It Revealed11 min read

The F&O and SME IPO Mania: Speculation Psychology in Real Time12 min read

Chapter 6: When It's Not Just Your Money

4 Lessons

Managing Family and Client Emotions: Spouses, Parents, and Advisory Relationships11 min read

Career Risk and Benchmark Hugging: Why Professionals Behave Differently11 min read

Window Dressing, Herding, and Crowded Trades Among Fund Managers10 min read

Capstone: A Behavioral Audit of Your Own Tradebook13 min read