Prathap Johnan
Coimbatore,TN
Summary
Experienced portfolio manager working with a Switzerland based hedge fund for the past 5 years with excellent skills in overall requirement to manage a trading fund (Programming and backtesting on large data sets of more than 10years of historical intraday data, identifying patters and testing using Technical analysis and Quantitative methods and automated live trading the high sharp and high returns strategies with minimum of max dd).
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
LEAD PORTFOLIO MANAGER & QUANTITATIVE DEVELOPMENT
HighTech Trading Systems Fund ( Switzerland)
10.2017 - Current
- Managed different diversified trading portfolios totaling over $10M
- Design and develop trading strategies and select best strategies for paper trading and finally to live trading with a skilled team.
- Currently managing a own trading portfolio which has made 18% in 2024 with a sharp of 1.8 (Attaching with the resume).
Senior Research Analyst
Higher Technology Trading Systems
11.2012 - 06.2016
- Collaborate with Switzerland team and backtest trading strategies on 1000s of assets globally.
- Optimization of trading strategies long side, short side separately and generate final and robust systems for live trading.
- Monitoring and analysing live trading results and update comparison reports and control slippage and maintain stoplosses on risk management of each strategy.
Education
PGCBM - General Management
XLRI
Jamshedpur, India06.2014
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
CSI College of Engineering
Ooty, India10.2002
Skills
- Programming skills to backtest any ideas related to medium frequency, low frequency and intraday type strategy models
- Working knowledge in a quantitative development environment ( Python, Tradestation, Multicharts, Portfolio Trader, and some customized quantitative trading tools development with a team)
- Humility and Working capacity to thrive with a global team
- Requirements analysis and design
- Ability to build asystematic trading environment with minimal human intervention
- Risk Management skills (Strategy risk management and also portfolio level risk management skillset)
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Team building and Team Management skills
Accomplishments
Designed and backtested and live trading completely own ideas on Techinical analysis with a Quantitative approach and achieved more than 15% in less than a month to lead the team of other portfolio managers.
Founded a tool to backtest one strategy on multiple instruments at the same time and generate result.
Contributed for a quant tool which will filter out all bad strategies and select only the good strategies for the different trading portfolios.
Worked as a Senior analyst with the same company and now seeing myself growing on managing different trading portfolios and managing a team.
Timeline
LEAD PORTFOLIO MANAGER & QUANTITATIVE DEVELOPMENT
HighTech Trading Systems Fund ( Switzerland)
10.2017 - Current
Senior Research Analyst
Higher Technology Trading Systems
11.2012 - 06.2016
PGCBM - General Management
XLRI
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
CSI College of Engineering
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