Victor Sperandeo is a legendary trader and excellent financial commentator based in the USA. Sperandeo has over 45 successful years on Wall Street in trading independently with his own money and on behalf of big names and other notable investors such as Leon Cooperman and George Soros. He has managed futures trading for EAM Group of Companies and global investment banks such as HSBC, RBS and Nomura.

He is widely known as “Trader Vic” in Wall Street, a title earned because of his intellectual ability and skills to trade profitably.

With over 30 years of trading experience, I have gone through most markets a trader should see in their career.  From the crazy rallies during the 90s, the tech bubble pop in early 2000s, the 2008 market crash and the latest bull run starting in 2009.  Through the last 20 years of my career, I have used a contrarian approach which has been very successful to me and my clients, as verified by Jack D. Schwager in his latest Market Wizards book.  I have managed large sums of money from a few million to several hundred million and learned a great deal about the Futures markets along with equities.

I own and manage a successful Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) business.  I am a one-man operation, which allows me to enjoy the process and be the ultimate decision maker.  I also publish a weekly report called the Crowded Market Report ©.  I started this report early this year because I think there is a niche demand for analysis that is not your typical “trade the trend” and “moving average cross over method”, but rather, a contrarian approach based on what market participants are doing and price action is confirming. I also know it will help me be a better trader, but I also KNOW that subscribers will gain value from the report and other insight provided.

The physicist Urban Jaekle has been trading stocks for over 25 years and futures for over 20 years. He has worked on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and has managed money for institutional investors with algo trading systems. His book “Trading Systems” (Harriman 2009 and 2019) includes strategies with free AmiBroker codes. 

Rakesh Pujara has over 25 years of trading and investment experience in the Indian equity markets. 

He completed his Bachelor of Commerce from Mumbai University in 1992 and ICWA from the ICWA Institute in 1996. In the initial part of his career he worked in the Finance departments of different firms in diamond, exports and media industries. In 1999 he joined Shree Naman Securities & Finance as a Finance Manager. In 2002, he established the proprietary trading desk at Naman and grew it to be the major contributor of the firm’s revenue.

Over the years he has developed his own style of trading and analyzing the markets and enjoys studying the behavioral aspect of the markets. He likes to look at long term trends and takes into account a number of factors such as global and local macro, fundamentals and technicals. In 2013, after he became the CEO at Naman, he established the algo trading desk which is very close to his heart. It contributed a major portion of the revenue of the prop trading desk.

Inspired by the results in Algorithm desk he formed his own company Viz. Compounding Wealth Advisors LLP which is a SEBI registered Investment Advisor & is in the Business of advising clients on generating all weather, absolute alpha generating risk adjusted returns. He is a system trader & believes in trend following & other non-correlated multiple trading systems to generate better risk adjusted return  

Money Control Interview, An accidental trader: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/markets/rakesh-pujara-an-accidental-trader-4947481.html

Links to his various presentations & Panel Discussions:

1) ‘Demystifying Algo Trading’ at an event in Mumbai. YouTube links: 

A professional trader and trading mentor, and ex-national swimming champion, Kirit cut his teeth in the stock market when he was still in college. A marketing professional, he was part of companies like Videocon and LG (on the team that spearheaded the successful India relaunch after one disastrous attempt). However, his passion for the stock market compelled him to continue his journey as a self-learner. After decades of dedicated self-learning, he is today one of the leading and respected names in the country in trading strategy and mentors diverse students across professions in the stock market trading strategy. He has as his mentees, alumni from the IIMs, IITs, CAs, professionals from leading multinationals, media professionals, and more. He also manages private funds. 

Vishal Mehta is a full-time independent trader. He is Chartered Market Technician (CMT) from USA and Co-Chair for Mumbai Chapter for CMT. He started as discretionary trader. Seeing the benefit of systematic trading and growth in automated trading, he started focusing on systematic strategies.