Edgar Perez, The Speed Traders, Featured in FXFactor, Ukraine's most Prestigious Financial Magazine

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), Mandarin by China Financial Publishing House (2012) and Bahasa Indonesia by Kompas Gramedia (2012).

New York City, NY, USA (June 13, 2013) -- Edgar Perez, author of The Speed Traders (http://www.TheSpeedTraders.com) and the forthcoming Knightmare on Wall Street (http://www.KnightmareonWallStreet.com), was recently featured on the cover of FXFactor, Ukraine's most prestigious financial and business magazine. Previously, Perez had presented his latest research on the subject of high-frequency trading at Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University (http://kneu.edu.ua).

FXFactor (http://fxfactor.ua) provides readers with engaging and useful information about the basic mechanisms of the financial capitals of the world, from updates about currencies, stocks and other markets, interviews with representatives of major financial companies, to surveys and forecasts of the leading financial analysts. Experienced specialists share their views on the prospects of the economy, the likely scenarios of behavior of individual markets and financial instruments.

FXFactor, the only publication that covers the currencies market, provides comprehensive information about brokers in Russia and Ukraine. In addition, readers will learn about innovations in the industry, news of the banking sector and the latest in the real estate market.

A unique category of the magazine is called “Lessons of Currency Trading for Beginners”. Throughout the year, FXFactor publishes 12 lessons that introduce beginners to the principles of the Forex market and help them to develop a successful trading strategy. And at the end of the year, FXFactor publishes an special issue that gathers all the lessons with expert commentary.

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 Bahasa Indonesia by Kompas Gramedia (2012). 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 provided in Sao Paulo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Warsaw, Kiev, New York, Beijing and Shanghai. 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 The New York Times and China's International Finance News.

Perez has been engaged to present to the Council on Foreign Relations, 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 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 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 Ingeniería, 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) and Weibo (http://www.weibo.com/EdgarPerez). For speaking engagements, requests can be submitted to jpetrova@thespeedtraders.com.

Media Contact:
Julia Petrova
Media Relations Coordinator
The Speed Traders
+1-516-761-4712

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