Santosh Kumar Pasi is the founder of Pasi Technologies and cofounder of Sonic Alpha LLP with market experience spanning close to 16 years specializing in Options Trading while focusing on volatility. He is SEBI registered Research Analyst with MBA and MCA in his kitty and has a bunch of domain specific CISA, PMP, MBA and MCA.

He has been a trader in the Indian stock markets with an overall experience of 14 years, specialising in Options Trading while focusing on volatility. He is a non-directional option strategy trader, considering volatility as edge. He manages the tool “OptionsOracle”, an option strategy analysis tool, widely used by most option traders in India. He has been conducting Option Trading workshops all pan India. He has also trained over 800 participants across India and other parts of the world. His hobbies include swimming, ice skating, roller skating, bungee jumping, sky diving and he is also a certified scuba diver. He has worked in India, UK and USA and travelled to Australia, Singapore, and Sweden.

Ashish Nanda is the President and Digital Business Head at Kotak Securities. He comes with 2 decades of experience in risk management, capital markets, portfolio management and business development.

A rank holder Chartered accountant, Ashish is the “tour de force” behind Kotak Securities. His vision and ability to combine strategic and tactical management expertise that produces bottom-line results have ensured him being at helm of almost all business verticals in his time with Kotak Securities.

He is a passionate online gamer. One can also find him in active conversations with customers on Twitter.

Sahaj Agrawal is heading the Derivatives Research Team Kotak Securities with key interest in Trend trading using price behaviour. In the derivative space, he has worked on Quant based trading models to index trends for the short term sentiment analysis coupled with momentum parameters to identify risk defined trading strategies.

With an MBA from Nirma University (Gujarat), Sahaj has over 15 years of experience in Derivatives research.

He started his career in research with Karvy Stock Broking, Hyderabad. After which he joined Kotak Securities in 2007 and has been with the organization since then.

Siddharth heads the Platform and Fintech division at Kotak Securities. He is responsible for trading platforms Website, .Exe, Algo, and API. In his previous organization, Siddharth was part of the digital product team in charge of providing trading platforms. He has also experimented with entrepreneurship by developing a platform for knowledge sharing.

Shai Coelho, Founder of Vtrender and India's foremost practitioner of Market Profile and Orderflow, has been working with traders for over 12 years, holding live sessions every working day, alongside answering over 20,000 questions. His main responsibilities include supervising his coding team, which monitors the changing dynamics of the market. He has also developed advanced charts that respond to minute changes in market structure and is fascinated by evolving movements, new-age technology, human psychology, spirituality, brain and mind science. His primary goal is to impart market knowledge to those who share similar interests.

Mr. Amol Athawale is a SEBI-registered analyst who has been with Kotak Securities for 14+ years, specialising in Equity and Derivatives research. Alongside, he has published numerous technical research papers in the Economic Times, Financial Express, Business Standard, Mints, and Times of India, on his industry expertise. He contributes to the ET Business page and the Money Control website for Business content on a weekly basis and in the last five years, he has given over 25 presentations, including on investor awareness programmes on the market's short and medium term trends.

Prashant Shah, founding member and CEO of Definedge, is one of few experts with a number of coveted and renowned designations in the Finance industry. Alongside being a Chartered Market Technician (CMT®) by the CMT Association, he is also a Certified Financial Technician (CFTe) by the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA). Additionally, he is the first in India to hold the right to the Master of Financial Technical Analysis® certification by IFTA, for original research conducted by him, on the Line-break charts swing trading techniques. He also holds a membership for the London-based Society of Technical Analysts.

Prashant is a popular author, with books on trading and investing with regards to Point & Figure, Renko, Relative Strength, Breadth and Trade Psychology.

He has worked with various financial firms, and has been practising technical analysis, relative strength, breadth, options strategies and noiseless charts for a number of years. Having exposure to business, research, institutions, HNIs, retail traders, investors, fin-tech companies, brokers, and other types of market participants, he has acquired a comprehensive understanding of the investing environment.

Mr. Deepak Thakran is a professional full-time trader and IT engineer with 20+ years of experience in the stock market. He has a thorough understanding of both bullish and bearish markets, with expertise in trading, mixing combinations of behavioural finance and candlestick-based technical analysis. Given his experience, his goals are always to minimise loss and preserve capital by experimenting with trading strategies that place a strong emphasis on the state of the market.

He also manages a Trader’s Club and contributes to their website.

Mr. Asit Baran Pati is a system-based F&O trader and trainer with over 10 years of experience in the Indian Equity Market. With over 12 years of expertise in the Investment Banking Space, he has been featured on MoneyControl, ET and the popular FTF series, which has over 1 million views. For a couple of years, he was a guest expert on CNBC Awaaz, and also has a penchant for Long Options owing to an in-house built Ranking System (a multi-timeframe and multi-indicator system).

Sivakumar Jayachandran is an ace Scalper and one of the few traders who has consistently earned profits by purchasing Options.
Beginning as an entrepreneur in the healthcare start-up space, Sivakumar later explored the trader's waters when he entered the Markets full-time.
With an aim to empower retail investors, he proved his mettle by successfully scalping Index Options, and broke the myth that Options buyers don’t make consistent money.
He now shares his expertise in Scalping techniques with other traders, and performs live trades to illustrate the usefulness of Scalping - something absolutely unprecedented!
To help traders decode the markets, he has developed 2 AI-based software, “Oi Pulse” & "1Cliq," that have been instant hits among Options players since their launch, and continues to evolve it, as user requirements and markets change.

Praful Kulkarni is a derivatives trader, specialising in short-volatility and delta-neutral models. He graduated in mechanical engineering from NITK Surathkal, and worked in a PSU for 3 years before deciding to start trading on a full-time basis.
Praful started as a directional trader, and later switched to positional short-volatility systems, where he currently trades short-volatility systems on an intraday basis.
He is also the founder of Alpha Leo Capital, where he designs and deploys custom trading algorithms.

Mr. Shrikant Chouhan is a SEBI registered Equity Analyst with over 24 years of experience in the areas covering Equity Research & Derivatives Research. He has a Bachelor of Commerce and is associated with Kotak Securities for the last 19 years. Currently, he is an Executive Vice President, heading the Fundamental and Technical Analysis Research team.

Over the last 10 years, Mr. Chouhan has had over 10,000 interactions with various business TV Channels like CNBC18, CNBC AWAAZ, ET-Now, NDTV-Profit, and Zee-Business, on topics related to short and medium term market trends, alongside sharing his expertise on stocks and sectors.

Additionally, he has published various research articles and papers on Macroeconomics and Technicals in The Economic Times, Financial Express, Business Standard, Mints and Times of India. He is also a weekly contributor to the ET Business page and on Money Control, for their Business content.