Edgar
Perez, Author, The Speed Traders: An Insider's Look at the New
High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing
World, Published by in English by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011, and
Mandarin by China Financial Publishing House (2012).
New
York City, NY, USA (June 25, 2012) -- There are a number of
people who have expertise in the field of high-frequency trading, the
execution of a significant number of financial transactions in short
time frames to capture small price discrepancies. But while there are
many experts, not all of them are great presenters; even more so, not
all of them have the international stature that Edgar Perez, author
of The Speed Traders, has quickly acquired after extensively
traveling the world and presenting to audiences of practitioners and
academics in America, Europe and Asia, in addition to being featured
in the most influential international business publications.
Perez
is widely regarded as the preeminent global expert in the specialized
area of high-frequency trading. He wrote The Speed Traders, An
Insider’s Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is
Transforming the Investing World, published in English by McGraw-Hill
Inc. (2011), in Mandarin by China Financial Publishing House (2012)
and currently being translated into Bahasa Indonesia and Portuguese.
The Speed Traders (http://www.TheSpeedTraders.com)
quickly became the most comprehensive, revealing work available on
the most important development in trading in generations; The Speed
Traders explains everything there is to know about how today's
high-frequency traders make millions, one cent at a time.
Perez
is also 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),
seminars scheduled in 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. He was Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of New
York University, where he taught Algorithmic Trading and
High-Frequency Finance. Perez 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.
For
more information about Perez and The Speed Traders, readers are
invited to visit his website http://www.TheSpeedTraders.com
or follow him on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/TheSpeedTraders),
Linkedin (http://www.linkedin.com/in/EdgarPerez),
Twitter (http://twitter.com/MrEdgarPerez),
Weibo (http://www.weibo.com/EdgarPerez),
Sohu (http://EdgarPerez.t.sohu.com)
and Tencent (http://t.qq.com/EdgarPerez).
For speaking engagements, requests can be submitted to
jpetrova@thespeedtraders.com.
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