Think Like a Market Professional
Practical Frameworks for Financial Markets
Make the move from theory to the real world - my aim is to give you the tools and practical frameworks you need to understand how money, macroeconomics, and markets really work. Theoretical finance and textbook economics provide a basic foundation, but to truly understand and profit in global markets you must think like a market professional.
This self-paced course will equip you with a set of robust and practical frameworks that combine logic, stories, data and more to help you see markets more clearly, make better forecasts, and make more money.
What you’ll learn
History, cycles and mega trends
Narratives, bubbles and crashes
Economic data and central banks
Market psychology
The Syllabus
The course is divided into five blocks, each containing between two and four lessons. Some, but not all, lessons will come in the form of transcripts of interviews held specifically for this course with leading professional money managers, and every lesson ends with a multiple choice quiz of approximately 20 questions.
Block 1: Cycles
Big Cycles and Megatrends
Debt and Financial Cycles
Surfing the Narrative Cycle
Bubbles and the Madness of Crowds
Block 2: Money, Debt and Capitalism
The Evolution of Money
The Evolution of Economic Theory
How We Got Here: The Evolution of Financial Markets
Everything Has Changed: Dramatic and accelerating change in economic theory, policy, geopolitics, technology, and markets
Block 3: Central banks
A Brief History of Central Banking
Understand and Interpret Economic Data
Predict, analyse, and Trade the Economic Data
Block 4: Non-linear markets
Volatility and Options
Liquidity, Fat Tails, and Crashes
Block 5: How to Be a Market Professional
See the Bias, Don’t Be the Bias
Communicate Like a Market Professional
Think Like a Market Professional
In addition you will gain access to;
Two indicators, coded for TradingView, that allow you to trade any market with a statistical edge.
A private twitter feed where I will highlight, short-term, option trades for U.S. listed stocks & etf’s.
1 Trade Idea, with a 3 month horizon, per day as highlighted by our quantitative model. For more information, see the GRYNING | AI section.
Four AMA - Ask Me Anything - emails a month. Simply send me your questions by Friday evening and I’ll respond on Monday with detailed or long form explanations.
There are 16 written lessons that will take roughly one hour each and 8 transcripts that will each be around 40 minutes. Total time to complete the course is approximately 20 hours, but this is the bare minimum. There are additional readings, quizzes, and exams that will take extra time if you choose to do the extra work.
The course contains lessons, stories, and examples that apply to stocks, bonds, foreign exchange, commodities, options, and crypto and will be delivered by email.
This is for you, if;
A strong passion for learning about financial markets is reason number one to sign up. But there are many other reasons. For example, this course will:
Help you make more money trading, make better forecasts, and make more rational and intelligent investing decisions.
Teach you to combine narrative and quantitative information.
Improve your communication and writing skills.
Increase your knowledge base and confidence.
Give you access to a trading expert so you can ask questions about the course material, financial markets, and your career.
The course is comprehensive and focused. It’s packed with information, but not boring. It bridges the gap between theory and practice - it teaches you how to think not what to think.
Who am I?
I could give you my CV and list all the places I’ve worked and the risk I’ve managed, but ultimately that doesn’t mean much and who even knows if it’ll be accurate. Instead, I prefer to show “proof of work”.
The GRYNING Times is a daily journal on the financial markets written in an easy to read, concise - Macro Economic Perspective. You can determine if my view points are sound with nearly 4 years worth of daily notes.
Visit the GRYNING | Macro section - there you will find my financial market outlook for year 2024, alongside various other outlooks encompassing a wide range of asset classes. If you require more examples, please get in touch, and I’ll be happy to send over a few reports/insights.
Visit the GRYNING | AI section - here I publish a free Trade Idea every week, as highlighted by our quantitative model, with full alpha signal analysis and fundamental, technical, sentiment feature ranking’s. Here’s how the trade idea’s have performed since 20 Feb’24.
The course will be limited to about 20 members - I want to make this a personal and highly effective endeavour. I also want the weekly AMA section to be impactful and currently don't want to commit to more than 20 emails per weekend.
Please share this with anyone you think may find it of value. Should you have any questions, I can be found on the details below.
Course Fee: £2000
Start Date: 01 July 2024
Places are limited, filled on a first come basis.
Alexander Karlsson
Email: a.karlsson@gryningcapital.com