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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.
The applications of behavioral science to finance are now broad and well-researched. They encompass activities such as spending, investing, trading, financial planning, portfolio management and business commerce. In addition, behavioral implications are also turning on end some...
TA offers a great set of tools for trading the markets or enhancing investment strategies, but a study in Europe quantified the use of technical analysis by individual investors and found that those who use it significantly underperformed those who didn’t. The conclusion...
The origins of using past prices to forecast future ones in financial instruments can be traced as far back as Babylonian price records and Greek market sentiment assessments. But it was Charles Dow and his disciples that can be credited with adapting this ancient art form to...
Richard Lehman shares his insights on his experience at the CMT Association's 44th Annual Symposium, which took place on April 5 - 7th, 2017 in New York City.
Video presentation by Richard Lehman from the West Coast Regional Seminar in San Francisco, CA, originally held on September 18, 2010.
The Northern California Chapter of the CMT Association is co-chaired by Rick Leonhardt, CMT, and Richard Lehman. Northern California Chapter holds meetings regularly, featuring some of the top names in the industry. Participation in all Northern California Chapter Meetings...