Parag Goyal is an analyst with two years of experience in global financial markets, with a background spanning proprietary trading, macro research, and independent sector analysis. He holds a degree in engineering from IIT Pilani.
He is currently focused on Indian private markets, building sector-level research on consumer investing behavior and the wealth tech landscape, with a thesis-driven report nearing publication.
At Futures First, he traded global interest rate and energy futures, synthesizing central bank communications, economic data, and positioning signals into live market views. He moved into a research role, producing macro synthesis for senior traders and mentoring a cohort of junior traders on rate futures.
Independently, he designed and ran a primary survey on how young Indians invest, analyzed responses in Python, and developed a thesis on the trust gap in mass-market wealth advisory, connecting primary findings to VC funding flows in the sector.
