Ashish Gupta
Algorithmic Derivatives Trader
Self-motivated quants trader with 4+ years of experience in fund management, algorithmic strategy development, and real estate finance.
Personal Philosophy
A personal constitution that guides my decisions in life, finance, and relationships.
Character & Relationships
- Be honest and never compromise on internal principles.
- Have friends who can help you at midnight, and be that friend.
- Live for the happiness of your partner; be a role model.
- Think from the perspective of others.
Action & Influence
- Understand, then act.
- Be proactive and begin with the end in mind.
- Don't try to change others; be the change you want to see.
- Achieve hard things that get heads turning.
Mindset & Growth
- Learning first—it's the best enjoyment.
- Always be positive, even in a "figurative death camp".
- Never criticize or complain; see the positive in people.
- Experience new things and learn from them.
Financial Philosophy
- Money should be a servant, not the master.
- Seek financial independence. Keep wants subject to needs and means.
- Remain debt-free, with rare, strategic exceptions for business.
- Spend less than I make and invest what I save.
Purpose & Process
- Use money and talent to make life more enjoyable for others.
- Practice service and charitable giving.
- Write a diary: see the past, visualize the future, and harden core principles.
Trading Performance
Demonstrated results from algorithmic and discretionary trading across F&O and Equity segments.
Total Net Profit
₹1.98 Cr+
(Equity + F&O, 2022-Present)
Unrealized Equity Profit
₹63.52 L+
(As of Oct 2025)
Total F&O Profit (Realized)
₹1.24 Cr+
(FY 2022 - Present)
Total Equity Profit (Realized)
₹10.03 L+
(Lifetime Realized)
Performance Breakdown
| Period | Segment | F&O Profit (Realized) | Net Yearly Profit (F&O + Equity) |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY 2022-2023 | Future & Option | + ₹9,57,347.38 | + ₹27,96,368.28 |
| FY 2023-2024 | Future & Option | + ₹49,42,818.86 | + ₹67,81,839.76 |
| FY 2024-2025 | Future & Option | + ₹50,73,321.49 | + ₹69,12,342.39 |
| FY 2025-Present | Future & Option | + ₹14,74,685.83 | + ₹33,13,706.73 |
| Total F&O (Realized) | + ₹1,24,48,373.57 | ||
| Lifetime | Equity (Realized) | + ₹10,03,317.10 | |
| Current | Equity (Unrealized) | ₹63,52,766.51 | |
| Total Net Profit (F&O + Equity) | + ₹1,98,04,457.18 | ||
Portfolio Growth (Equity Curve)
Illustrative growth of a ₹1.35 Cr starting portfolio, including all realized and unrealized profits from F&O and Equity segments.
Key Achievements
55% Net CAGR in 2023
45% Net CAGR for 2024-Present
Finalist in Smart India Hackathon 2018 (Problem statement by Goldman Sachs)
Professional Experience
April 2022 - Present
Asset Manager (Self-Employed)
Automate derivatives trading strategies using Python, C, and C++. Manage the full lifecycle of writing, backtesting, forward-testing, and deploying live trading algorithms across multiple brokers.
December 2020 - Present
Co-Director, Real Estate Business
Working with father, managing a staff of 5. Oversee real estate financing, research new opportunities, and manage funding for new projects in the Delhi NCR. Portfolio includes industrial, residential, and agricultural land.
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Internship at GRAASSP Investments
Wrote algorithmic trading bots for Indian discount brokers (Zerodha, Kotak Neo, Firstock). Contributed to strategy optimization and parallel integration of bots across multiple accounts.
July 2020 - August 2021
Internship at Goldman Sachs
Expanded the scope of ticketing systems and replaced old monitoring systems. Built a generic ETL pipeline (Kafka, Hazelcast) with an ingestor to Hive for big data management.
June 2019 - July 2019
Internship at Goldman Sachs
Worked on a Spring Boot + Angular + IBM DB2 relational database migration from a legacy .NET framework. Built a Node.js bridge to connect internal APIs to a third-party cloud service.
Education & Research
Education
2016 - 2020
Delhi Technological University
Mathematics and Computer Science
CGPA: 8.97
2013 - 2015
CBSE (Xth & XIIth)
XIIth: 95.2% (Science w/ Mathematics)
Xth: 10.0 CGPA
Research Paper
Brave Men and Emotional Women: Analyzing Gender Bias in Bollywood Songs
Gupta, A., Ladia, H., Bansal, S., Arora, A. (2021).
Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Engineering. Springer, Singapore.
Read PaperGet in Touch
ashishgupta1350@gmail.com
in/ashishgupta1350
GitHub
ashishgupta1350
Phone
+91 99101 40614
Social Work
6 Month Internship at Art of Living Foundation
2017