Board of Trustees
Name : Sushil Kedia, President
Sushil Kedia, 1969, has been traversing the Indian Equity markets for close to last two decades with a career that has spanned varied roles as a successful analyst, trader, broker, strategist, and investment manager. Sushil is serving on the Board of Directors of the Market Technicians Association, Inc. for the term 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2014. He is the first Asian ever to be elected to this position. He has worked in the past for companies such as ING Barings, Standard Chartered Bank, and Devonshire Capital as well as with a few of the best Indian financial services names.
He is a qualified Chartered Market Technician as well as a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst. He brings to the table a unique faculty at blending fundamental value assessments with Technical & Quantitative Market timing frameworks.
He is a Post Graduate in Business Management from the XLRI Jamshedpur School of Business. He has continued to pursue varied learning programs and recently earned the FRM certification from GARP. He is also pursuing a Masters in Financial Engineering from The National University of Singapore.
He is one of the earliest Alternative Investment professionals in the Indian markets and has done significant work in the arenas of market timing, derivatives strategy, quantitative trading, and investing in the Indian context.
His focus is India and his keen interest is in every other liquid and tradable market on the globe from across commodities, currencies, and equity indices.
He has been a regular columnist, market commentator in the various media, regular speaker at various industry conferences in India and overseas, and a highly networked professional who brings multi-faceted holistic perspectives on Indian markets with global inter-market analytics across time spans ranging from intraday to multi-year time fractals.
His hobbies include playing chess, swimming, studying crowds, cookery, writing and reading.
Name : Gnanshekhar Thiagarajan, Senior Vice President
Gnanasekar Thiagarajan currently heads Commtrendz Research, an organization which specializes in commodity research and advisory to market participants in India and overseas. Commtrendz works with corporates and institutions both in India and overseas providing hedging and trading solutions in the volatile commodity and forex markets.
Further to his formal schooling education at IIT Madras, and post graduation in software engineering, he had a long stint (7 years) with DowJones Telerate, one of the leading real-time financial information vendors and promoters of "The Wall Street Journal". He gathered more experience in the banking, financial services and the commodity markets, interacting and providing various real-time solutions to market participants in India and Asia. He had the opportunity of closely working with some of the legends in Technical Analysis history in the U.S, namely Mr. Tim Slater, of “The Computrac” fame, Mr. Mark Douglas famous for his “Disciplined trader” and “Trading in Chaos” books and Mr. Jim Wykcoff for Symmetry wave theory and many more analysts who have traded in Wall Street.
His interest in using technical analysis for trading increased, and then he joined Scotiabank, one of the leading Canadian banks, considered to be a leader in the global bullion markets, to trade in the volatile inter-bank currency and bullion desk. He was a market maker in the G7 currencies, quoting prices constantly. In the meanwhile, his interest for the commodity markets started growing after his columns in The Hindu Business Line won accolades in the international markets. He has accurately forecasted the Malaysian Palm oil futures and had an extremely high success rate in predicting future prices. He also contributes two more columns in The Hindu Business Line on NY Cotton Futures and Comex Gold futures.
With the advent of the commodity exchanges in India, there was a new avenue, which opened up for commodity trading in India. With the experience he acquired in trading at Scotiabank, he joined The Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX) as a Consultant, sharing his thoughts and views on the various commodities to their members. He is regularly invited by various television channels including CNBC, print media like Economic Times and The Business Standard and Newswires like Reuters, Bloomberg, Newswire 18 and Tickerplant Newswire to opine on the commodity markets.
Name : Mitesh Thacker, Secretary
Mitesh Thacker started his career in 1999. He has served in some of the biggest financial services firms in various capacities, from being a Technical Analyst to being Country Head of Trading & Research functions. In the year 2009, he took to entrepreneurship and started his own consultancy and trading venture.
Mitesh is a Post Graduate in Business Management from the T. A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal. He has since then been a keen student and follower of Equity Markets. He currently focuses on Equities as his primary trading arena and much of his work is focused towards areas of Breakout trading, Algorithmic trading, quantitative analysis, derivative strategies etc.
He has been a commentator on business television and is regularly invited to share his technical opinions on stocks and indices. He is a well networked professional who has been a speaker at various industry forums as well as he has conducted training programs on the subject in association with the Bombay Stock Exchange and other professional agencies.
Mitesh has been married for 10 years and has two children. His hobbies include playing chess and he is also a keen collector / trader of ancient coins and currency.
Name : Anuragh Ghuwalewala, Treasurer
Anurag is a rates trader with HSBC India since 2006. He trades various cash & derivative rate products using technical and fundamental analysis.
He is a Post Graduate in Business Management from IIM-Bangalore and was amongst the top ten students in his batch. Prior to this, he has done the Chartered Accountancy course from the Institute of Chartered Accountants, India and is a recipient of the U.K. Bhargava prize for Best Paper in Income Tax & Central Sales Tax.
He is undergoing the Chartered Market Technician certification process.
Anurag is an avid reader and a keen follower of financial markets.
An Electronics Engineer from IT-BHU and an MBA from IIM Bangalore, Sanjeev is a dynamic & visionary entrepreneur. He last promoted Dynamix Research & Capital Management Private Limited with a focus on generating superlative returns for its clients irrespective of market conditions. Decoding the mystery of market movements always interested him immensely. After starting as a Fundamental Analyst he was completely enamored by the charm of Technical analysis. More than 19 years in the Indian Stock market in various roles have given him a deep understanding of the market pulse.
A firm believer in traditional Indian values, he loves to spend time with his joint family. He is blessed with a lovely daughter & a doting son. His fondness for reading & travelling has imbibed in him the zeal to keep re-inventing strategies to reap maximum benefits. An avid philanthropist at heart, he actively works for the welfare of the weaker sections of society. He has also been conferred the "Paul Harris Fellowship" by Rotary International.
Ujjwal is an FX trader with Standard Chartered Bank since 2007. He actively uses technical analysis, especially trend following and momentum indicators, in his field of work.
He has done B. Tech (Hons) in Electrical Engg from N.I.T. Jamshedpur. He went on to complete his MBA (Finance) from FMS, Delhi University. He is a certified FRM from GARP institute. He has successfuly passed all the three levels of CMT and has applied for membership. He also happens to be a Level 3 candidate for CFA program.
He takes active interest in teaching. His hobbies include playing chess and listening to music. He is a foodie and loves seafood.
Name : Meghana V Malkan, Editor
Meghana V Malkan is a committed Technical Analyst. She trades her proprietary account across asset classes - Equity, Commodity and Forex. She writes her own trading systems.
She is the co-founder of MALKANSVIEW - a Training Institute which offers various programs on Technical Analysis and Behavioural Finance. She trains & mentors professional traders as well as brokers working at various broking houses and Multi-National Companies. She advises HNI Investors on trading strategies.
Meghana is a Graduate in Law and has received the charter of a Company Secretary. She is a Chartered Market Technician.
She has, before entering financial markets, been a part of the legal department at the UB Group for four years.
She is also invited on business channels to share her technical opinions on Indian equity markets.
Name : Vishal Prakash Dalvi
Vishal Prakash Dalvi is an MBA from N.L.Dalmia Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. He has done his B.E. in Electronics & Telecommunication, from VasantDada Patil College, Mumbai.
He is an Affiliate member of the reputed Market Technicians Association. He has passed his CMT Level 1.
He is an Affiliate member of Chartered Financial Analyst Institute. He has passed his CFA Level 1 examination and appeared for CFA Level 2 examination in June 2010.
Currently he works in the Commodities & FOREX Advisory department of ANAND RATHI as a Technical Analyst. He worked as a Research Analyst with Commtrendz Risk Management Services, looking into the trading and advisory role for its Clients in asset classes like Commodities & FOREX before joining ANAND RATHI.
Prior to his MBA, he worked with Infosys Technologies Ltd. for 2 years and worked for Clients like Atena & Daimler Chrysler.
He has spoken as a guest speaker at the Cotton Association of India, teaching Technical Analysis to their members. He has also conducted courses on Technical Analysis in few MBA and BFM colleges under Mumbai University and also conducted orientation lectures to educate students the importance of Technical Analysis.
Vishal actively blog his views on various asset classes like Equities, Commodities & FOREX using Elliott Wave Principle and other classical technical tools.
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By Mukul Pal
 Mukul Pal, Co-Founder, Orpheus Capitals is a Chartered Market Technician, MBA Finance. Orpheus Research is registered with Integrity Research Associates, New York as an independent research company.
He is a member of the Market Technicians association. He has more than a decade of Capital Market experience dealing with derivatives and global assets. He has worked for Bombay Stock Exchange, multinational Banks and brokerage houses in leading research positions before starting on his own in 2005. He is also an authorized investment consultant by the CNVM (Romanian Capital Market Regulator).
Mukul has actively researched on 'Time' and has written some seminal paper on the mathematical hierarchy of time. His first paper on performance cycles was published in the Kyoto Economics Journal in Mar 2009. Recently his paper on Time Fractals was accepted by the ERN History of Economics Journal and Capital Markets Market Microstructure eJournal (SSRN Economics Research Network).
Time Fractals attempt to explain the exponentiality in nature and markets. The subject has wide application even outside capital markets. He has written extensively on derivatives markets, sentiment indicators, alternative research, investment psychology, commodities and global assets from 1997 till date for local and international publications like the Business Standard (India), The Economic Times (India), E-Mecklai (India), Yahoo Business, Economistul (Romania), Ziarul Financiar (Romania), Bucharest Daily News (Romania), Business Week (Romania), Technically Speaking (MTA Newsletter USA), Euro Physics letters (France) etc.
Mukul is also an active trainer and speaker. He has conducted training programs for Thomson Reuters (Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Albania), Oil and Gas Forum Romania, Bombay Stock Exchange, SIBIU Derivatives Exchange, Bucharest Stock Exchange, Academy of Economic Studies. Orpheus CAPITALS covering India, CEE region and global assets including Metals, Energy, Alternative Energy, Agro Commodities, Bonds, Interest rates and Elf's across multiple time frames for investing and trading. Orpheus research reports are published internationally on Reuters, Thompson, Yahoo Finance and Business Standard India.
Mukul, in his spare time, enjoys to swim, practice Kyokushin karate and indulge in visual arts.
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