Edgar
Perez, Author, The Speed Traders, and Course Director, The Speed
Traders Workshop 2012 (Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur,
Warsaw, Kiev, New York, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Jakarta,
London, Mexico City, Moscow, Ho Chi Minh, New York, Dubai and
Chicago) to Bring New Book that will Cure Investors' "Knightmare
on Wall Street".
New
York City, NY, USA (August 13, 2012) -- Edgar Perez, author of The
Speed Traders and global speaker on the topics of
high-frequency trading and investing, is back at work with the
forthcoming Knightmare on Wall Street: Do Facebook's Botched IPO and
Knight Capital’s Technology Error Mark the Beginning of the End of
Equities Investing? (http://www.KnightmareonWallStreet.com).
Knightmare
on Wall Street will provide a comprehensive look at current market
structure, including the earth-shaking reforms that were brought by
the SEC in the equities world. It will begin by looking at the
traditional model that was dominated by the New York Stock Exchange,
the SEC’s effort to create an advanced national market system to
ensure that orders get the best available pricing and the emergence
of alternative trading systems and dark pools. After a detailed
explanation of headline-grabbing incidents, starting with the Flash
Crash, the Pipeline Trading’ SEC investigation, the failed BATS
IPO, the botched Facebook IPO and, ultimately, what has been called,
the “Knightmare on Wall Street”, involving Knight Capital’s
trading system malfunction.
The
reader of Knightmare on Wall Street will come away with a thorough
understanding of the history of market structure in the U.S. equities
world and the contrasting viewpoints about the impact of regulation
and technology, and why the author believes that the sky is not
falling, and we are instead experimenting the initial hiccups of what
will be a new era of investing and trading in the U.S. that will be
adopted around the world.
Reviews
for Perez’s first title, The Speed Traders, which was published in
English by McGraw-Hill Inc. and in Mandarin by China Financial
Publishing House, were overwhelmingly positive. "The Speed
Traders, written by Edgar Perez, offers cutting-edge intelligence on
the relatively concealed industry of High-Frequency Trading. The
substantial foundation of HFT is laid out and combined with thorough
interviews to make sense of the complicated technicalities in HFT.
Perez gives the whole picture by critically defining HFT, charting
its inconspicuous emanation into the securities market, breaking down
the flash crash of 2010, forecasting the indisputable role that HFT
will play in the financial world, and perhaps most importantly,
walking the reader through 6 different evaluations with actual high
frequency traders."
"The
interviews were the most valuable asset in making this industry
understandable. The first person narrative is key because it's easy
to comprehend and relatively scarce in current literature for many
reasons, two of which are that traders are reluctant to disclose
strategies on generating alpha and the barriers of entry to the HFT
industry are so high that there is only a limited amount of traders
that actually know what they are talking about. Readers searching for
break-through information on HFT have met their match because The
Speed Traders is in a class of its own. Its exceptionally designed
equilibrium between fleshed-out mentorship and historical HFT
knowledge delivers core comprehension of a challenging topic."
Perez
is widely regarded as the preeminent global expert in the specialized
area of high-frequency trading. Perez is course director of The Speed
Traders Workshop 2012, How High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable
Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX,
http://www.TheSpeedTradersWorkshop.com,
(Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Warsaw, Kiev, New York,
Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Jakarta, London, Mexico City, Moscow,
Ho Chi Minh, New York, Dubai and Chicago), and was Adjunct Professor
at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he taught
Algorithmic Trading and High-Frequency Finance. He contributes
regularly to China's International Finance News.
Perez
has been interviewed on CNBC Cash Flow, CNBC Squawk Box, BNN Business
Day, CCTV China, Bankier.pl, TheStreet.com, Leaderonomics, GPW Media,
Channel NewsAsia Business Tonight and Cents & Sensibilities. In
addition, Perez has been featured on Caixin, Futures Daily, Xinhua,
CBN Newswire, Chinese Financial News, ifeng.com, International
Finance News, hexun.com, Finance.QQ.com, Finance.Sina.com, The Korea
Times, The Korea Herald, The Star, BMF 89.9, iMoney Hong Kong, CNBC,
Bloomberg Hedge Fund Brief, The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times, Dallas Morning News, Valor Econômico, FIXGlobal Trading,
TODAY Online, Oriental Daily News and Business Times.
Perez
has been engaged to present to the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (Washington DC), CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities
Institute, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York
University, University of International Business and Economics
(Beijing), Hult International Business School (Shanghai) and Pace
University (New York), among other public and private institutions.
In addition, Perez has spoken at a number of global conferences,
including Harvard Business School's Venture Capital & Private
Equity Conference (Boston), High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New
York, Chicago), MIT Sloan Investment Management Conference
(Cambridge), Institutional Investor's Global Growth Markets Forum
(London), Technical Analysis Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia
(Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face (Seoul) and Private Equity
Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia (London).
Perez
was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM, and a
strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City. Perez has
an undergraduate degree from Universidad Nacional de IngenierÃa,
Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of Administration from Universidad ESAN,
Lima, Peru (1997) and a Master of Business Administration from
Columbia Business School, New York, with a dual major in Finance and
Management (2002). He belongs to the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society.
Perez resides in the New York City area and is an accomplished salsa
and hustle dancer.
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