Manav Kumar
Trader
Hyderabad,TG
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
AVP
Futures First Info Services Pvt. Ltd.
7 2014 - Current
- Trading Energy Complex, e.g
- Brent, WTI, Heating Oil and Gasoil futures on ICE and CME exchanges using platforms, TT and Stellar, with in-house application quanthub and Thomson Reuters Refinitiv
- Analyzed supply-demand equilibrium for crude oil and products in the US and Europe region, and forecasted short-term market outlook
- Designed and executed short- and long-term customized and developed hedging strategies to reduce risk for different commodities - Cotton, Sugar, and Energy Products.
- Analyzed qualitative and quantitative data to understand its implications and make strategies for trading diverse financial products.
- Identified market opportunities and risks in futures instruments and collaborated with the in-house commodities team to improve P&L.
- Analyzed fundamental and technical factors, and the impact of major macroeconomic factors on different commodities, made gross profit above $1 million in the year 2020.
- Reached a gross profit of $1.65 million in the year 2022, with a net profit of $800,000 in the year.
- Managing margin requirement of $2.5 million across commodities, with a trading average of 3,000-4,000 volumes per day.
- Implementing risk management strategies for optimizing RR ratio to achieve hit rate up to 70-75%.
- Ranked 1 in terms of volume generation in a few products and up to rank 5 in multiple products in asset classes across the firm.
- Executing technical trading strategies based on charts, by having a medium-term view of the price trend of different commodities.
- Formulated automated trading strategies for maximizing profits using calendar spreads, butterflies strategy based on seasonality and trend in the commodities market.
- Actively explore the arbitrage opportunities within the Crude Oil Complex.
Leadership roles
Futures First Info Services
- Lead a team consisting of 10 people for doing research, identifying opportunities, forming exit strategy
- Mentor for 3 consecutive years for new batch joining, gave them insights into the markets and trading
- Gave numerous talks and presentations on how to handle the work life balance in trading profession to juniors
Overall Captain
Hyderabad Sports Intra League
03.2019 - 06.2019
- Came up with an idea to have an intra sports league to involve everyone from branch
- Formulated team selection from scratch from pool of participants for 7 different sports in league
- Strategized different participants for different games and made sure our team came on top
- Allocated different participants for different roles in captaincy for different sports
- Won team as Captain of Cricket team
Head Finance, Udghosh'13
IIT Kanpur
01.2013 - 04.2014
- Lead a 4-tier team of 400 individuals which saw participation of 1500 students from all over India
- Managed Logistics of budget distribution of 6.5 million and mitigating risks of budget deficit based on marketing scenario
- Structured mechanism for online sale of T shirts for the first time in Udghosh
- Developed strategy of pre-ordering T shirts, increased sales and revenue generation
- Initiated and successfully implemented idea of bringing Air Hockey table to campus, sow seed for growth of Board Games at IIT Kanpur
- Proposed plan of implementing Fiesta (get together during Festival) managing logistics of around 2500 people
Education
B. Tech - Chemical Engineering
IIT Kanpur
01.2010 - 01.2014
Class XII - CBSE
Holy Mission High School
01.2008 - 01.2009
Class X - CBSE
Holy Mission High School
01.2006 - 01.2007
Skills
EQ
Certification
FRM Level I, Cleared
Selftraits
- Disciplined
- Perseverant
- Adaptive
- Risk Taker
Activities
- Participated and successfully completed 100km bicycle ride held in Hyderabad.
- Active participant in Airtel Marathon organized in Hyderabad since 2016, running 10 and 21km Marathon.
Timeline
Overall Captain
Hyderabad Sports Intra League
03.2019 - 06.2019
Head Finance, Udghosh'13
IIT Kanpur
01.2013 - 04.2014
B. Tech - Chemical Engineering
IIT Kanpur
01.2010 - 01.2014
Class XII - CBSE
Holy Mission High School
01.2008 - 01.2009
Class X - CBSE
Holy Mission High School
01.2006 - 01.2007
Leadership roles
Futures First Info Services
AVP
Futures First Info Services Pvt. Ltd.
7 2014 - Current
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