Issue No. 2835 · Career edition · October 2026

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The Wassie Brief

  • Venues traded
  • 01Binance
  • 02Hyperliquid
  • 03Kraken
  • 04Deribit
  • 05Bybit
  • 06OKX

The read

Summary

Business operations lead at Credo, a crypto prop desk, and a trader. I've been in markets since 2019, first in options on US and Indian indices, then full time in crypto derivatives on Credo's desk from 2022. In 2025 I moved into running the firm's operations and kept trading.

Before markets I co-founded a grocery company in India, grew it to $2M ARR and 70 staff, and sold it in 2019. I hold an MSc in Entrepreneurial Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, and a bachelor's degree in information technology.

At Credo I own what the firm reads every morning and what the market sees of it: the daily briefing every trader starts the day with, the X account (3K followers, 610K impressions in the past year), Credo Wire (about 500 subscribers in its first three months, all organic), the investor pipeline and the research programme. I report to one of the most respected and widely followed traders in crypto, and have traded alongside many of the industry's veterans. I'm the desk's go-to analyst, and I know the product from the trader's chair.

Top headlines

Career to date
  1. $BRIEF Whole desk reads one page before the open, every day

    Owns the firm-wide daily market briefing: thousands of overnight items filtered to one card, every number checked. A public edition goes out on X each day. This page borrows its format.

  2. $CREDO X account clears 610K impressions in 12 months, run by one person

    About 3K followers, 7.9K engagements and 2.4K active followers, with the account's fastest follower growth in the last month. All organic.

  3. $WIRE Credo Wire hits 500 subscribers in three months, no ad spend

    A real-time news feed built on the desk's own tooling and opened to the public on Telegram, launched with a small team of desk traders. Often ahead of AGGR and Tree News.

  4. $OPS Six functions under one operations lead

    Briefing, X, Wire, the investor pipeline built from zero in HubSpot, the research programme and the hiring pipeline, all owned since 2025.

  5. $PROP Prop desk from Dec 2022: funded capital, strict drawdown limits

    Traded Binance perpetuals across a wide altcoin universe, switching between trend, mean reversion, long/short and sector rotation as volatility regimes changed.

  6. $MRGROC Bootstrapped grocery startup hits $2M ARR, founder exits

    Co-founder and COO for five years. A hyperlocal delivery startup became a grocery chain with a team of more than 70. Full share-sale exit in 2019.

  7. $TRADFI Research programme targets institutions as perps go mainstream

    Months of short-form analysis on X, and the first long-form article (pre-IPO perpetuals on Hyperliquid) out in October 2026.

Sessions

Four roles, newest first
2025 – nowOpen

Business Operations Lead

Credo · digital assets arm of ARB Trading Group, a TradFi derivatives prop firm · Remote

  • Own the daily market briefing. Every Credo trader reads it before the open and a public edition goes out on X each day: thousands of overnight items filtered to one page, every number checked.
  • Run Credo's X account single-handed: about 3K followers, 610K impressions and 7.9K engagements in the past 12 months, with the account's fastest follower growth in the last month.
  • Launched Credo Wire with a small team of desk traders: a real-time news feed built on the desk's own tooling and opened to the public. About 500 Telegram subscribers in its first three months with no advertising, often ahead of AGGR and Tree News.
  • Built the institutional investor pipeline from zero in HubSpot, from contact capture to meeting flow, ahead of outbound starting October 2026.
  • Started the research programme: months of short-form analysis on X, and the first long-form article (pre-IPO perpetuals on Hyperliquid) out in October 2026, aimed at TradFi investors as perps and real-world assets expand.
  • Run the website's careers page and the applicant pipeline through the firm's current hiring round.
Dec 2022 – 2025Closed

Proprietary Futures Trader

Credo

  • Traded Binance perpetuals across a wide altcoin universe, switching between trend, mean reversion, long/short and sector rotation as volatility regimes changed.
  • Managed funded capital under strict drawdown limits, with institutional execution tooling to control slippage.
  • The desk's morning read: lead researcher for the internal updates on overnight narrative shifts, token launches and rotations that became today's firm-wide briefing.
  • Wrote the firm's Substack market updates, turning altcoin setups and macro drivers into clear takeaways.
Sep 2019 – nowOpen

Co-owner & Investment Analyst

6arz OÜ · my personal investment company · Tallinn, Estonia

  • Traded options on US and Indian equities and indices with discretionary strategies; 8x on seed capital in the first six months.
  • Traded cross-exchange premiums, order-book dislocations and options skew with risk-managed leverage.
  • Applied TradFi frameworks, such as bond yields, the equity risk premium and liquidity cycles, to crypto positioning.
Sep 2014 – Aug 2019Exited

Co-founder & COO

Mr.Groc (formerly DeliveryWaala) · NCR, India

  • Bootstrapped a hyperlocal delivery startup into a grocery chain with $2M ARR and a team of more than 70.
  • Ran operations end to end: supplier negotiations, logistics, local supply chains and business strategy.
  • Led the company through a corporate partnership to a full share-sale exit in 2019.

Desk notes

Selected work
$WIRE

Credo's market intelligence

The desk's view of the market goes out in three forms: an internal briefing every morning, Credo's X account, and Credo Wire, a public real-time news feed on Telegram. I write the briefing and run the X account myself, and lead the small trader team behind the Wire. All of the audience growth has been organic.

Daily briefing
Headlines, ETF flows, breadth, gainers and losers, and the day's catalysts on one card. Read by every trader before the open; a public edition posts on X.
Credo on X
610K impressions, 7.9K engagements and 2.4K active followers out of 3K in the past year, with record follower growth in the last month.
Credo Wire
Real-time headlines from the desk's tooling, often ahead of AGGR and Tree News. About 500 Telegram subscribers three months after launch.
$TRADFI

Research for TradFi readers

Long-form pieces of 3,000 to 5,000 words that explain crypto-native instruments through traditional finance analogies, for the institutions Credo wants to reach. The first, out in October 2026, looks at pre-IPO perpetual futures on Hyperliquid: how they track sentiment and direction ahead of a listing, and why volatility rises as they converge with the exchange's indicative price.

Process
A brief agreed with the team first, then a sourced research file, then drafting with charts built from verified on-chain data.
Short form
Months of analysis threads and market nuggets on Credo's X account, which the long-form pieces build on.

Footnote · personal execution strategy, own account

A strategy I designed for my own trading. It holds inventory in coins I'm bullish on, with resting bids and offers sized to recent volatility, aiming to keep most of the upside with a much smaller drawdown than simply holding. Early numbers from a few months of live trading, annualised from daily returns. It hasn't run long enough for these to count as a track record, so treat them as indicative.

Sharpe5.9Sortino13Max DD−2.3%

The board

What I know

Markets

  • Perpetuals & funding
  • Market microstructure
  • Positioning: OI, funding, breadth
  • Volatility regimes
  • Options: greeks, skew, implied vol
  • Macro & cross-asset

Risk & sizing

  • Fractional Kelly
  • Leverage & liquidation math
  • Drawdown-constrained capital

Operations & growth

  • Daily briefings & operating rhythm
  • Audience growth: X, Telegram, Discord
  • Investor pipeline (HubSpot)
  • Research & editing
  • Hiring & website ops

Tools

  • Python
  • Backtesting
  • AWS
  • Git
  • HubSpot

Education

  • MSc, Entrepreneurial Studies
    Royal Holloway, University of London2011 – 2012
  • Bachelor's, Information Technology
    Amity University, Noida2007 – 2011

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