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Dhruv Manshani

Bhopal, IndiaTetr College of Business

I build things to find out what’s true.

Software, markets and words. Everything below is an experiment, and every result is recorded honestly — including the ones that failed.

01
01Wound down

Ammorra

2026

A web development studio for SaaS founders.

Hypothesis
SaaS founders will outsource web development to a small, sharply positioned studio.
Build
Built and launched solo — positioning, service offer, pricing, contracts and an outbound pipeline. Ran direct outreach to prospective clients.
Result
Zero customers converted. Shut it down rather than subsidise it.
Lesson
The offer was built before the demand was validated. Test demand with users first, then build.
02Concluded — no capital deployed

Systematic intraday strategy

Pine Script · cTrader

A rules-based intraday system, taken from backtest to live reconciliation.

Hypothesis
An intraday structure with explicit entry, stop, trailing and reversal rules holds up across indices and gold under a fixed risk-reward mandate.
Build
Designed, coded and backtested in TradingView Pine Script across NIFTY 50, US100, US500 and XAUUSD, then ported to a cTrader algorithm.
Result
Reconciled the live algorithm against the backtest. The entire gap resolved to fill assumptions — roughly 16.6 points per trade of spread and grid slippage.
Lesson
Concluded against committing capital to the strategy as built. The backtest was not wrong about the market; it was wrong about the fills.
Reconciliation

The strategy worked on paper. Then I measured the paper.

  • NIFTY 50
  • US100
  • US500
  • XAUUSD

I ran the cTrader algorithm and the backtest against each other, and they disagreed. The useful question was not whether the live version underperformed, but where exactly the difference came from.

BacktestLive-adjusted
Schematic. The shape illustrates the divergence; no performance figures are published here beyond the measured per-trade slippage above.

The gap

≈ 16.6

points per trade

Spread and grid slippage — the whole of the live-versus-backtest gap.

VerdictNo capital deployed. The strategy was not committed to as built.

A backtest is a hypothesis about a market and a hypothesis about an execution venue at the same time. This one was only wrong about the second — which is still wrong enough not to fund.

03Ongoing · 20+ essays

Speaking The Unspoken

2023 — Present

A satirical publication on social and institutional double standards.

Hypothesis
The double standards people live inside are worth naming out loud — in satire rather than sermon.
Build
Founded and self-published the publication end to end: written, edited and shipped to a live audience.
Result
20+ original essays over three years, published without an editor, a platform or a deadline imposed by anyone else.
Lesson
Shipping on a self-imposed schedule for three years is its own result. Still running.
Speaking The Unspoken

Twenty essays about the things people agree not to say.

The subject is the gap between what a room claims to value and what it actually rewards.

It is the same instinct as the rest of this register. Say the quiet part, then check whether it survives being said.

speakingtheunspoken.com

Selected essays are being indexed here.

02The route

How I got here.

  1. 2026 — Expected 2030

    Tetr College of Business

    B.Sc. (Hons.), Management & Technology · degree conferred by UBI Business School (UK-accredited)

    A four-year global programme delivered across seven countries, with a real business built, funded and operated in each term. Coursework spans go-to-market strategy, budgeting and unit economics, operations and applied technology, alongside company immersions with operating businesses in each market.

  2. May 2024

    DB Corp Ltd. — Dainik Bhaskar

    Finance Intern · Bhopal, India

    Inside the finance function of India’s largest Hindi-language media group, observing budgeting cycles, cost analysis and financial reporting across a national multi-edition print operation.

  3. 2026

    The Sanskaar Valley School

    ISC, Commerce & Economics · 98%

    ICSE Outstanding Academic Performance and General Proficiency; subject distinctions in History, Civics, and Computer & Commercial Applications.

    School Colour for MUN, 2025

Terms across
  • India
  • Dubai
  • Singapore
  • Ghana
  • USA
  • Argentina
  • Europe
03Off book

Elsewhere.

Model UN
5× Best Delegate — MU20 Summit 2023 & 2024, MIMUN, Afghan Summit, YEC National Entrepreneurship Challenge 2025. 3× Vice Chair. Honourable Mention, Oxford MUN India.
Tennis
Bronze, SGFI National School Games — soft tennis U19 team, 2024. Bronze, CISCE Regional Lawn Tennis U19. State level in both lawn and soft tennis.
Award
Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award — Bronze, 2024.
Music
Senior Diploma Part I, Sugam Sangeet — keyboard, four years and counting.
Speaking
Runner-up, Archbishop Eugene Memorial Inter-School Chat Show, 2025.