Ankush Gupta

CEO

Greater London, England, United Kingdom14 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of experience in derivatives trading.
Expert in market making and risk management.
Strong focus on training and developing junior talent.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned professional in Fintech with a strong focus on derivatives trading and risk management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Market MakingRisk ManagementForeign Exchange (fx) TradingDerivatives Trading

Other Skills

DerivativesProprietary TradingOptionsCommodity MarketsTradingMatlabFinancial MarketsCommodityEquitiesPortfolio ManagementFX OptionsFinancial RiskStrategyQuantitative FinanceVBA

About

Options trader with more 10 years of experience in trading precious metals and foreign exchange derivatives for big global banks. Core speciality includes market making in vanilla/exotic derivatives and resulting risk management of large and complex options portfolios. I also continuously work towards improvement of existing risk systems and development of junior talent on the trading desk.

Experience

14 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Executive Director

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

Main risk taker and manager for the gold and base metals derivatives books. Focus on business growth via more automation and improvement of key existing risk and pricing systems.
Training of junior staff to equip them with better derivatives knowledge and improve overall pricing capabilities.

Market MakingRisk ManagementDerivatives

Executive Director

Oct 2022 – Aug 2023 · 10 mos

Foreign Exchange (FX) TradingProprietary TradingOptionsDerivatives TradingCommodity MarketsTrading

Ubs

2 roles

Executive Director

Promoted

Feb 2022 – Oct 2022 · 8 mos

Director

Nov 2016 – Feb 2022 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Deutsche bank

4 roles

Precious Metals Derivatives Trader

Jan 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos

Major responsibilites included market-making, trading and risk managing precious metals options portfolio. Also another major focus of the role is on developing electronic platform franchise for the precious metals business and integrating in to bank wide fx infrastructure

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FX Derivatives Trader

Promoted

Jul 2011 – Oct 2016 · 5 yrs 3 mos

My main focus was to market make and risk manage G10 Fx options portfolio along with precious metals portfolio. I traded short date flow derivative products as well as long date highly structured products across g 10 currencies. I was also responsible for developing and risk managing the automated vol offering to clients over autobahn.

Market MakingRisk ManagementTrading

Junior Trader, Commodities Trading

Jul 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos

Make markets and trade in all kinds of Environmental Financial Products covered under the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme(EU ETS)
Generate trade ideas based on correlation between Global Macro and supply-demand balance of the EU ETS. Take short /long term positions and manage market risk.

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Graduate

Jul 2011 – Jan 2012 · 6 mos

Studied key fundamentals of financial markets and basics of financial derivatives as part of a 2 month classroom training programe.
Worked at 4 desks for 1 month each, namely emissions trading, structured credit and portfolio trading, DCM liability management and equity derivative sales. Developed a broad understanding of the different parts of Global Markets Business at Deutsche.

Royal bank of scotland

Internship

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

Developed an automated market making strategy based on Reinforcement Learning Framework
Demonstrated applicability and profit generation on historical data from German Bund market. Implementation and simulation was done using MATLAB