ROHIT GANJOO
Contact No: +91-8888497629, 9920734834
E-mail: rohitganjoo@gmail.com
Date of Birth: 23 Oct 1982
202/H, Laxmi Township-2, Kalas, Vishrantwadi, Pune-411015
Employment Chronicle
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Capstone Securities Analysis Pvt. Ltd., Pune
Nov’13 – Present
Role: Trader (Research) - Working within a fast-paced environment in the financial services industry
(Proprietary Desk).
Professional Responsibilities:
 Working as a trader for a proprietary desk (US Stocks).
 Analyze market conditions, economic data and financial information.
 Product Focus: US Stock Market
 Trading Platforms: Takion
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Ariston Capital Services Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
Jan’09 – May’13
Professional Responsibilities:
Trading:
 Managing a team of trader’s with a discretionary portfolio having $200,000 AUM (Asset under
Management) for proprietary desk (Derivatives, Commodities, Currency).
 Maintaining fund allocation and turn over limits across the desk within traders. Allocation of
different strategies to the team member on individual performances.
 Calculating daily margins for futures in different exchanges for trading operations and rolling out
to team members.
 Preparing MIS reports for the trading team on weekly and monthly basis.
 Analyze market conditions, economic data and financial information.
 Familiarity in using auto-trading, Parity and Pair Trading.
 Processing & analyzing raw data, drawing conclusions & developing recommendations.
 Reconciling trades for respective team &strategies from the trade reports received from exchanges
and sending the reports to senior managers and director.
 Spread Trading in Commodities by using short term trading model, mainly based on various
economic factors such as currency movements.
 Possess in-depth knowledge of trading in Commodities, Bonds, Forex and Agro products as well
as various exchanges like NYMEX, MCX, COMEX, ICE, Trading Technologies (TT), NSE
Currency, MCX SX bourses.
 Leading a team of Professionals, explaining trading strategies, guiding them in formulating
different trading strategies, training them to handle trading platforms.
 Understanding of various instruments like German Bonds, European markets short term
instruments and exchanges such as Eurex, Globex and CME.
 Experienced in identifying new potential trading strategies by collecting and analyzing data with
the help of Bloomberg. Improving existing strategies for incremental profitability by back testing
the same strategy with different parameters.
 Analyzing the impact of various losses including MTM loss on weekly basis and make necessary
changes to trading floor.
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Liaise with Market Data Analysis IT and risk systems to specify and test system improvements.
Liaise with source data providers as necessary to endure continued provision of quality data and
arrange support for new market data.
Product Focus: Bullions, Energy, Metals and Fixed Income.
Trading Platforms: Interactive Brokers (IB), LME, MCX, Ncdex, Trading Technologies (TT),
NSE Currency, MCX SX bourses.
Data Engines: Bloomberg, Reuters
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Risk Management:
 Managing Desk wide margin (allocating margins based on strategies) and keeping a close check
on position leverage of team.
 Identifying Financial & Operational risks & implementing effective mechanisms to mitigate the
same.
 Leveraging and de-leveraging position in an optimal way to reduce risk and enhance performance.
 Revisiting the Risk policies and updating it from time to time and ensuring of implementing them
throughout team members.
 Daily reporting of Margin limits, exposure limits to senior management and trading floor.
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Research & Development:
 Working on R&D strategies for trading, assisting in developing auto trading, preparing reports and
checking on the cost feasibility and risk ratio rewards of these R&D strategies.
 Coordinating with the IT team to bring new strategies live, using automation (Algorithms).
 Performed back testing of the strategies along with the risk team to evaluate the performance and
suggest modification/drop of strategy as required.
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Religare Securities Ltd., Gurgaon
Role: Relationship Executive
Dec’06 - April’07
 Pro-actively hunt for target organizations and establish communications with those businesses that
can benefit from our services.
 Present and demonstrate products and services that can be offered to the clients to help them
achieve their goals.
 Understand client’s unique needs and requirements.
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ICICI Securities Ltd., Gurgaon
Oct’06 – Nov’06
Role: Relationship Executive
 Present and demonstrate products and services that can be offered to the clients.
 Acquisition of individual and corporate clients.
 Handling the queries about the sales.
Scholastics
2009:
2006:
2001:
1999:
Master of Management Studies (Major-Finance) from Mumbai University with 1st class.
Bachelors in IT Engineering from Mumbai University with 1 st class.
HSC from S.M. Jain, J&K Board with 1st class.
SSC from Luthra Academy, J&K Board with 1st class.
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Internships & Projects
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Completed 2 months Internship Program with Reliance Money Ltd., Mumbai, in the field of Market
Research & Analysis.
Key Responsibilities:
 Acquisition of individual and corporate clients
 Market survey and Competitor Analysis
 Analysis of PMS offered by Reliance Money
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Prepared a project titled “Implementing Chat Server Model” as a part of final project. The important
feature of the project was to establish a typed conversation between two or more users in real time..
Other Skills
 Steady character, able to work under pressure in a dynamic, complex environment.
 Have excellent team working abilities; able to work in a large global organization as a team member,
sharing knowledge for the benefit of the team.
 Ability to translate highly technical information into business language and develop convincing
presentations.
 Advanced troubleshooting and problem analysis experience.
Achievements, Awards & Certifications
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NCFM Derivatives Market (Dealers) Module & Capital Market (Dealers) Module
NISM Currency Derivatives Module
MCX Certified Commodity Professional (MCCP)
Was in the top 20% (merit list) in 3rd National IT Aptitude Test, 2007
Won 1st Prize in Inter-collegiate Computer Programming (Crack-it), 2006
Won 1st Prize in the Junior group of Discover India contest 97 organized by International School of
Computer Technology (State level).
System & Application Proficiency
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Applications: MS Office
Proficient in Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
Well versed with Odin Trading Workstation, Bloomberg, Reuters, Interactive Brokers, Takion,
Poems Professional Trade Workstation, MCX & Currency Terminals.
References
Available on Request
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