Vihan Singh

2015 · The Magician

• ·Watch The Prestige on my 18th birthday. Spend the year with a deck of cards. Become a professional magician.

2017 · The Dorm

• JunCan't get into AI, defense, or nuclear. Read More Money Than God. Start Blackrose as a quant finance blog from the dorm, with the dream of building the next Renaissance.

2019 · New York

• ·Raise $8M in soft commitments on a dispersion trade. Get told not to start a US fund. Fly home.

2020 · Escape Velocity

• FebAutomate a BANKNIFTY 9:20 straddle. First production day matches the backtest.
• MarStart making money in mid-frequency short vol index options. COVID. The book survives because we're never in the gap.
• JunFirst institutional capital.

2021

• Jan100 crores of margin. Three people, a terminal, two praying hands.

2022

• ·800 crores AUM at peak. Became a "fund of funds". Still running it out of a bedroom.

2023

• FebMove into first Blackrose office.
• ·Expand team. Start working on high-frequency trading.
• JunFour weeks debugging the wrong file. Wipe four years of personal P&L. Borrow from family to keep the accounts running.

2024

• AprOpen my lunchbox. A NIFTY option goes 10x in two seconds. Liquidity vanishes.
• NovA SEBI circular ends the market the book was built in.

2025

• ·Stop managing outside money. Equities desk doing $1B+/month on NSE.
• ·Explore Polymarket as a new trading venue. Realize the real opportunity is in making a new prediction market.

2026

• ·Start building Omnibook.