Gone are the days when technical analysts used to play secong fiddle to the fundamental finance professionals. Technical analysis today is a serious security analysis discipline for forecasting the future direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume and runs at par with financial analysis. In its purest form, technical analysis considers only the actual price and volume behavior of the market or instrument. Technical analysts may employ models and trading rules based on price and volume transformations, such as the relative strength index, moving averages, regressions, inter-market and intra-market price correlations, cycles or, classically, through recognition of chart patterns.
Ace analyst, Sajiv Dhawan appears regularly on CNBC India and NDTV Profit as an expert analyst of the markets and has an excellent track record in stock market analysis. He has also appeared on Star TV and BBC World TV. His comments also appear on several websites which track the Indian Equity Markets. International viewers would also have seen him on South Asia World Analysts.
He launched his company JV Capital Services (P) Ltd (http://www.jvfinancial.com/) in 1995 assisted by professionals having a rich experience in the financial service sector.
Ashwini Gujral and Anil Manghiani, have their established brokerage services firms brokerage firm despite being experienced analysts in their individual rights.
Senior Analyst Prakash Gaba of http://www.prakashgaba.com remains a committed professional analyst. He got interested in Equity Analysis on a freak episode. He would buy on tips and sell on tips and he made a lot of money doing just that following other traders blindly, until that one fateful day when he lost all that he had made in one week that was the day he decided that he would buy on his own tips and sell on his own tips only. He would generate his own tips. He quarantined himself from the rest of the world and permitted himself the luxury of just two friends. His quest for knowledge took him through this journey of Equity Analysis and he studied and researched the subject for over 16-18 hours a day, seven days a week and for over three years reading over 60 books on the subject and follows the same routine diligently to this day. A Post Graduate in Management and a Certified Financial Technician (CFT) from London, he believes that Equity Analysis is one of the most difficult and challenging subjects that he has ever come across.
Rajat Bose of http://www.rajatkbose.com is a well-known analyst in Indian equity market. A keen student of financial and capital markets, he has been studying markets and companies for more than fifteen years. He participates in the surveys conducted by The McKinsey Quarterly. Currently, he appears exclusively on TV18 India Ltd. group channels- CNBC TV18, CNBC Awaaz and CNN-IBN every week several times. He provides technical advice to the viewers. He also regularly contributes http://www.poweryourtrade.com with daily calls and also writes articles on market outlook in http://www.moneycontrol.com apart from contributing to www.poweryourtrade.com. Earlier he has appeared on several Indian channels like NDTV-24x7, NDTV Profit, Zee Business, Sahara Samay and several other regional language TV channels. He has also written for The Economic Times, Kolkata edition and The Statesman, Kolkata. He has conducted technical workshops at various places including Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur. He has also taught in the MBA Finance programs in Calcutta University and National Institute of Management Calcutta.
Equity Analyst Paramita Banerjee entered the market with the firm Virginia Investments in 2004. Graduating in computer science from UMB she started her career as a technical analyst. Her individual clientele includes research companies, consultants & bankers. She has little to regret and says that the years spent training in analytics really helped her a lot. But many others are not so hopeful. The more conservative approach of sticking to a salaried job is popular among the youth. Says a student “...at the end of the day people look for security in a career so it is relatively safe to go for a full time job instead of staying independent.”
