ARAbhilash Rathod

Finance / Psychology / Curiosity

Hello, I’mAbhilash.

This is my corner of the internet.

Connecting the dots between business, humans, and the business of being human.

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01 — Why I write

What the chart
leaves out.

I’ve spent years watching markets from five seats: research, broking, an exchange, a bank treasury, and surveillance. Somewhere along the way, I noticed that charts tell only half the story.

The other half was somewhere else: a shift in the market, a change in the narrative, an order that looked fine—until it didn’t.

So I kept notes. Too many, in too many apps. This is where the good ones live now.

You’re welcome to read along. No pop-ups. No course to sell. Just making sense of things that don’t usually make sense.

The writing ecosystem

Four lenses.
One curious mind.

Quick notes, market interpretation, investment theses, and essays on behaviour. Each follows a different question.

01 / OPEN NOTEBOOK

Field Notes

Loose observations, useful fragments, and ideas caught before they settle into an essay.

Wander through the notes 03 / INVESTMENT THESIS

The Alpha Bets

Investment cases built from evidence, with the risks and the reasons the thesis could fail in view.

Open the casebook 04 / HUMAN CONDITION

The Vitruvian

Considered essays on behaviour, business, and culture—and the human patterns connecting them.

Read the essays

03 — About

Five Desks.
One Career.

I studied at the National Institute of Securities Markets before starting on an asset manager’s research desk. Since then, I’ve seen markets from several vantage points: through brokerage clients, exchange trading, bank treasury, and compliance. Each move changed what I noticed… and made me more curious about what the numbers leave out.

That curiosity led me to behavioural science through courses and programmes at Duke University, IIM Bangalore, the World Bank, and Ogilvy. The questions I follow are simple: What does the business do? What drives its decisions? What would change the story?

Some questions stay in Field Notes. Others become market commentary, investment cases, and essays on the forces shaping everyday life.

Numbers explain what happened.
The story explains why.

Now

Compliance, international bank

Where the rulebook meets the trading desk.

Treasury

Treasury Manager, ICICI Bank

Forex, bonds, hedging… the Big Short stuff, minus the glamour.

Exchange

Senior Executive, Multi Commodity Exchange

A front-row seat to how traders behave when real money is on the line.

Brokerage

Associate, Interactive Brokers

The market through the client’s eyes.

Research

Research Intern, Abakkus Asset Manager

Where the “but why?” habit began.

Origin

PGDM, Securities Markets, NISM

Two years to prove I like finance. It worked.

Study & credentials

The work behind the lens.

Finance qualifications, market certifications,
and behavioural-science study.

01 Finance

  • Investment Advisor Series X-A
  • Portfolio Management Services Series XXI-A
  • Research Analyst Series XV
  • Equity Derivatives Series VIII
  • Currency Derivatives Series I
  • Securities Operations & Risk Management Series VII
  • Merchant Banking Series IX
  • Mutual Fund Distributors Series V-A

02 More than finance

  • Behavior Science in Public Policy World Bank
  • Applied Behavioral Science Ogilvy
  • Behavioral Finance Duke University
  • Behavioral Architecture Fractal
  • Behavioral Economics & Public Policy IIM Bx
  • Bloomberg Market Concepts Bloomberg
  • Economics for Capital Markets CFI
  • Risk Management in Financial Sector TCS
Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it’s a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.
— Lex Luthor