Vijay Bhambwani, is Founder-Promoter, Bhambwani Securities Pvt Ltd. He is also Consulting Editor – Commodities & Currencies, Equitymaster Agora Research Private Limited.
Born in 1966, Vijay graduated from Jai Hind College, Mumbai in 1987 (B. Com). After a postgraduate diploma in Business Management (DBM), Vijay started investing in the equity markets in 1986. Realising the need for credible advisory inputs, Vijay started an investment advisory newsletter in 1990. The aim was to fill a void between the perception and reality of the knowledge-based investing process. Vijay promoted Bhambwani Securities Pvt Ltd in 1993 to reach out to investors with cutting edge data-based output.
In the year 2000, the personal financial/advisory website www.Bsplindia.com was born. The dotcom bust saw Bsplindia.com flourishing and providing content, columns, views and consultancy to Yahoo! Finance, Business Standard, DNA Money, Femina, Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Vyapar, walletwatch.com, Valuenotes.com, Doordarshan, Star News, CNBC TV18, NDTV, Zee Business, ET Now among many others totalling over 8,000 shows and 2,000 newspaper columns and articles.
From 2004 onwards, came the global footprint with visibility on Reuters, Bloomberg, Gulf News, Khaleej Times, BBC and a host of international websites like silverstrategies.com. Vijay wrote his second book ‘Fast Profits’ which was published in December 2019.
Vijay has many “firsts” to his credit…
1. The first author in India to write a bestselling commodity trading book – “A Traders Guide to Indian Commodity Markets” (published by CNBC India) in 2009 – classified as a “best seller.”
2. The book was sponsored by the NCDEX (National Commodities & Derivatives Exchange) for a record-breaking sponsorship amount, the first of its kind in the country. The book is a referral textbook for SY BCom (Semester II) at Mumbai University.
3. The first dedicated columnist for commodities in the English print media.
4. The first columnist to offer a dedicated mechanical system-based equity stock futures and options page in the Indian print media.
5. Vijay pioneered the use of behavioural technical analysis, especially in commodity markets in India.
6. The first practising expert to offer education in Forward Markets Commission (FMC) certified courses on commodity markets at Welingkar Institute and the Multi Commodities Exchange between 2005 and 2009. Vijay has also trained thousands of broking firm executives, HNIs and retail investors in the finer art of trading. Much of his course material is still in use even today and thousands of students have benefited thereof.
Currently, Vijay is focused on proprietary trading in various asset classes using in-house statistical trading models and imparting investment/trading education. Vijay is currently empanelled with Bombay Stock Exchange & National Stock Exchange as a visiting faculty cum trainer. Vijay is a consulting editor for commodities and currencies at Equitymaster. Networked well with international and domestic commodity, currency & equity heavy-weights, Vijay travels extensively to get the feel of the markets. Behavioural finance, South East Asian economics and politics, resource depletion and inflation studies are his
passions