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Sekhar Anand

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in quantitative finance and trading strategies.
  • Proven track record in achieving high trading profits.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience in market forecasting.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on quantitative trading and analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quantitative FinanceTrading StrategiesTradingMarket AnalysisForecasting

Other Skills

Quantitative AnalyticsQuantitative ModelsCommunicationDerivativesCommodityEquitiesMicrosoft ExcelFinancial ModelingFixed IncomeValuationBloombergCapital MarketsFinancial MarketsInvestment BankingOptions

Experience

13 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Vice President

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Prime Finance Quant
Quantitative AnalyticsQuantitative ModelsCommunicationDerivativesCommodityTrading+22

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Vice President

Jun 2019Jul 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Corporate Treasury Strategist

Vice President

May 2014Jun 2019 · 5 yrs 1 mo

  • Credit Strategist, Securities Division

Futures first info. services pvt. ltd.

Analyst, Commodity Markets

Jun 2010Apr 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Achievements
  • Earned highest profits for the year 2011-2012 among the batch of oil traders joining in June 2010
  • Promoted to Analyst in the Commodity Markets team in 7 months after joining
  • Proficient in Bloomberg and Reuters Terminals usage for fundamental and technical analysis
  • Responsibilities
  • Traded intra-day and short-term positions of crude oil derivatives on NYMEX & ICE markets
  • Designed and executed Buy-Sell strategies based on live market data for futures contracts
  • Analyzed market action on Bloomberg and Reuters for presentations in daily meetings
  • Formulated & implemented strategies and correlation trades using currency rates & equity indices
  • Traded crude oil (WTI & Brent) spreads and futures, and the spread of WTI-Brent
  • Skills & Training
  • Studied fundamentals underlying crude oil market from research reports & PVM analyst interactions
  • Attended a workshop on Technical Analysis conducted by Dan Gramza, President of DMG Advisors
  • Attended workshops on Risk and Money management, soft skills development, and market abuse
  • Applied Technical Indicators like MACD, Moving Averages, VWAP, Bollinger Bands, Fibonacci Levels, Candlestick Patterns and Chart Patterns using Reuters and Bloomberg
BloombergReutersTechnical AnalysisTradingMarket Analysis

Edelweiss capital

Internship, Indian Equities

May 2009Jul 2009 · 2 mos

  • Internship in the Indian Equities Division of Edelweiss Asset Management, Mumbai under the guidance of Mr. Paul Parampreet
  • Contribution
  • Developed trading strategies for sectors with high intra-sector returns’ dispersion in Indian equities
  • Achieved 39% average annualized return with a combined trading strategy for the period 2001-09
  • Modeled an Excel worksheet that gives entry and exit signals for the strategies
  • Project objective: Develop a ‘Trading Strategy’ for sectors with high dispersion among their returns.
  • Charted two high-yielding trading strategies (Long & Short) by identifying “Inflection points for Trends among dispersion of intra-sector returns”.
Trading StrategiesExcel ModelingMarket Analysis

Yes bank

Intern

May 2008Jul 2008 · 2 mos

  • Summer internship at Food & Agribusiness sector in the Corporate and Institutional Banking section of Yes Bank, India’s leading private bank. ( www.yesbank.in/) under the guidance of Mr. Gopinath Koneti.
  • Contribution
  • Developed a forecast for the demand of food products in India & submitting a 50-page report, “Future Trends and Projections for Demand and Supply of food in India: The Road to 2030".
  • Predicted the demand and supply of food products in India using regression analysis.
  • Submitted a 50-page report as part of the consultancy given to a real-estate developer.
  • Obtained exposure to project financials of an Agro-Park and devising weather insurance.
  • Description
  • 1. Forecasting demand of various food commodities in the 2010-2030 period. A report "Future Trends and Projections for Demand and Supply of food in India: The Road to 2030" was written based on my study.
  • 2. A weather insurance was devised for the cotton farmers of Nagpur based on the historical monsoon data and the cotton crop.
  • Working on such varied topics and bringing out successful results within such a short span of time left me with a sense of satisfaction that I shall ever cherish.
Regression AnalysisForecastingReport Writing

Education

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

PGDM (Post Graduate Diploma in Management)

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Mathematics and Computing

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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