About Nitesh
Nitesh has worked across several areas of financial markets, including foreign exchange, interest rates, proprietary trading and business leadership. After leading business initiatives at iRage, he went on to become CEO of QuantInsti™.
Get to know Nitesh
What keeps markets interesting for you?
That the same market can look completely different depending on whether you view it through macroeconomics, quantitative models or trader behaviour.
What did working across FX and interest rates teach you?
That context matters. Prices rarely move in isolation, and understanding the relationships between markets is often more useful than looking at one instrument alone.
What kind of problems do you enjoy solving?
The ones that combine markets, data and decision-making, especially when there is no obvious answer and the solution has to be built step by step.
What has leadership taught you that trading did not?
Trading teaches you to make decisions under uncertainty. Leadership teaches you to help other people make better decisions under uncertainty.
What makes quantitative trading exciting to you?
The discipline of turning an idea into something measurable, testable and repeatable.
What role does learning play in markets?
A central one. Markets evolve constantly, so the ability to keep learning is often more valuable than any single framework or model.
What do you value most in a team?
Curiosity, clarity of thought and people who are willing to challenge assumptions without losing sight of execution.