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Avanindran Sakthidaran

Summary

Passionate about investing and trading, with a strong interest in algorithmic strategy development. Eager to leverage my time at NUS and the NUS FinTech Society to design, test, and optimize day trading and swing trading strategies to enhance profitability. Enjoys research on Financial markets and conversing with individuals with similar interests in trading.

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Retail Trader

Self-Initiated
04.2024 - Current


  • Traded crypto miners (MARA, RIOT) for profit, earning roughly S$2000 (~15% of account) in the past 2 months.
  • Utilized VWAP-based trading strategies for equities
  • 1 year of retail day trading experience in crypto-linked equities and momentum stocks , applying technical analysis.
  • 3 Months Experience Swing Trading (e.g. NWL)
  • Experience in CFD Demo Trading (1:20 Leverage) (BTCUSDT)
  • Manual Back-testing of strategies (TradingView)

Management Associate

JLim Organization
01.2025 - 04.2025
  • Gained knowledge on Financial Markets through talks and workshops held by fund managers (eg. Eastspring Investments, Schroders)
  • Networking opportunities with Financial Analysts and Fund managers




Education

Bachelors of Computer Science And Stats (2nd Maj) -

National University of Singapore
Singapore
01-2029

High School Diploma -

Raffles Institution
Singapore
11-2025

Skills

  • Technical Analysis
  • Portfolio management
  • Risk Management
  • Trading strategies
  • Derivatives trading (CFD, Futures)
  • Python, C

Accomplishments

Youth Finance Hackathon 2025 – Great Eastern

  • Built and pitched a model investment portfolio to industry judges.
  • Applied asset allocation, diversification, and risk-return analysis principles.
  • Use of Excel and graphs for comprehensive analysis of expected Annual



UI Design Contributor – HolUp! — 2024

  • Assisted in designing the user interface for a productivity app of a friend
  • Collaborated with a small team to improve usability and visual returns.
  • Basic use of HTML and CSS

Certification

Trading with Indicators - Alison

  • Learnt various indicators and their types of usage (e.g. lagging indicators vs leading Indicators)
  • Learnt to utilize indicators in conjunction ( RSI - Price divergence for buy/sell signals with EMA for trend confirmation)

Timeline

Management Associate

JLim Organization
01.2025 - 04.2025

Retail Trader

Self-Initiated
04.2024 - Current

Bachelors of Computer Science And Stats (2nd Maj) -

National University of Singapore

High School Diploma -

Raffles Institution

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