About

Arun Raja V J is a Senior Business Analyst - Trading at Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) with over 10 years of experience in the industry. He specializes in trading commodities such as grains, softs, energy, and precious metals based on fundamental and technical analysis. Arun is a short-term momentum trader who is always on the lookout for opportunities to make profits. He communicates with traders to align strategies and goals and performs technical and quantitative analysis to identify changing market trends and factors that impact risk. Arun has extensive experience in executing trades on CBOT, CME, COMEX & ICE using ABN-AMRO as executing and clearing brokers using CTS-T4 application. He is responsible for generating daily reports on P&L and VaR, daily reporting of the VaR numbers for all the portfolios of the company, maintaining the list of limits for each book and exchange limits, and alerting traders on breach of position and stop loss limits. Arun also works independently during the US market open to analyze data and trade and has designed and implemented trading algorithms with extensive backtesting. Arun has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore and a B Tech degree in Electronics and Instrumentation from Amrita Institute. He also completed his 12th grade from Kendriya Vidyalaya. Arun has worked as a Software Engineer at Ruchi Soya and as a Senior Software Engineer at Latize Pte Ltd. He has developed a trade entry web application, integrated the trade entry system with MySQL database to store the trades for future analysis, and provided trading decisions inputs using knowledge of both fundamental and technical analysis. Arun is skilled in software engineering, research, and testing. He has experience in using CVS and SVN for version control and has strong communication skills that help him interact with senior traders, financiers, lawyers, transporters, and clients. Arun is willing to work overtime and put in additional working hours on weekends if the work demands so. He has consistently delivered results in high-pressure dynamic environments and has an ability to stay updated on all the latest news surrounding investments.