About Me

Beginning my career as a professional dentist from Mumbai University, I developed a keen interest in trading and the stock market during my college days. Then began a completely new phase of my life in 1978 by giving up on dentistry profession and working as an active trader. For the first few years, I worked on fundamental analysis using self-taught tactics and then, by 1981, moved to the field of technical analysis. I knew I had found my core competence as a TA as my mind resonated completely with the subject.

Later, we partnered with a well-known stockbroker to offer services to retail clients. With the experience gained through my profession, we managed to understand the trading psychology of retail traders and design services that proved to be effective for them. Additionally, as the creation of NSE led to an increase in trading activity, I also got a chance to create an advisory service, which soon became popular in a short time. I also wrote a weekly newsletter known as the “Trend Trader” for more than twenty years, which institutional and retail clients considered a must-read.

Talking about our training programs, we launched our first structured technical analysis training between the years 1993-1994 at the UTI Institute of Capital Markets. This training program catered to many, many fund managers and other personnel in the field, as that was the period that asset management companies began operations in the market.  One of our foundational courses on technical analysis is still presented by BSE Training Institute to their attendees. In addition to our courses, we also conducted dedicated in-house training for various broking houses and still continue to do so.

I got great opportunities to write several columns for various magazines and used to work as an editor in India’s only technical analysis magazine, Capital Market Technicals. A lot of TV channels have also invited my team and I as subject experts such as ET Now, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, and NDTV. Some of our written pieces can be found in ET digital and Bloomberg Quint.