Rick Lehman is an Adjunct Professor of Behavioral Finance at UC Berkeley Extension and at Golden Gate University. He is also the Founder of BehavioralFinance.com.  His financial career spans more than thirty years, beginning with an eleven-year stint on Wall Street with EF Hutton, Thomson McKinnon, and the New York Stock Exchange. His prior financial career spans more than thirty years beginning with an eleven-year stint on Wall Street with EF Hutton and the New York Stock Exchange. He later worked for several financial data companies, a startup with the first on-demand reports on public companies, and a bank wealth management department, in addition to having his own RIA.

Rick has been a devoted market technician for three decades, launching from technical indicators into the behavioral science behind them and then publishing a book, Far From Random, on the relationship between technical analysis and behavioral finance. He also published two books on Options.

Rick holds a BS in Management Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and an MBA in Finance from the State University of New York at Albany.