The Rise of the Machines at Tech2Trade Expo 2013's High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 New York

Golden Networking brings Tech2Trade Expo 2013 (www.Tech2TradeExpo.com), World's Most Influential Alternative Investments Conference Series, including High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013, "Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, Speed Traders, Brokers and Exchanges," New York City, London, Chicago, Singapore and Frankfurt (www.High-Frequency-Trading-Conference.com).

New York City, NY, USA (July 12, 2013) -- In the 17th century, it is said that the Rothschilds were able to balance stock markets in their favor by flying carrier pigeons to relay information before their peers. Today's equivalent is high-frequency trading, the main topic of discussion at High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 New York City, July 30th, as part of Tech2Trade Expo 2013 New York City (http://www.Tech2TradeExpo.com).

According to Public Service Europe, HFT creates extreme market volatility and has even resulted in a 'flash crash'. On May 6, 2010, US index the Dow Jones plunged 1,000 points - or 9 per cent of its total - only to recover those losses within minutes. This shock was a direct result of HFT. And the sequence of events was triggered by a single sale of $4.1bn in futures contracts by a mutual, in an aggressive attempt to hedge its investment position. This was quickly magnified by HFTs, creating a snowball effect.

Not only that, the limited uses for such a trading device are simply to pump up pension funds or to create greater wealth for the super-rich. All this without truly investing in a productive asset - a company that might make a difference to wider society. Any integrity markets might have once had now lies in tatters.

At this precise moment, the world of HFT is analogous to a frontier town. Only this time, it is not humans displaying wild west-style behavior but the machines we have created. The flash crash of 2010 was a wake-up call. However, it seems the regulators are still asleep and we all know where that leads - circa the 2008 global economic crisis we are still coming to terms with today. Perhaps, carrier pigeons were not such a bad idea after all.

Tech2Trade Expo 2013, to be held in New York City, London, Chicago, Singapore and Frankfurt, is the world's most influential alternative investments forum for the hedge fund, high-frequency trading and derivatives communities. With dozens of practitioners, experts and regulators speaking in our programs, Tech2Trade Expo 2013 provides hundreds of investors, traders and portfolio managers with the key lessons, proven recipes and penetrating insights they are looking for to capture alpha in up and down markets:

- Alexander Fleiss, CIO and Co-Founder, Rebellion Research
- Thomas Kirchner, President, Pennsylvania Avenue Funds
- Jitesh Thakkar, President, Edge Financial Technologies
- James Koutoulas, CEO, Typhon Capital Management
- Sayena Mostowfi, Senior Analyst, The Tabb Group
- Marcus Storr, Head of Hedge Funds, Feri Institutional
- Carol Clark, Sr. Policy Specialist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- R. Scott Morris, President, Morris Consulting
- Nimesh Bharadia, CEO and Founder, The Kaiman Group
- Alison Graham, Chief Investment Officer, Voltan Capital Management
- Jonathan Kanterman, Partner, Institutional Asset Advisors
- Matthew Magidson, Partner, Lowenstein Sandler PC
- V.J. Angelo, Director, Global Markets Exchange Group
- Sanjeev Sharma, Contributing Writer, SeekingAlpha.com
- Dr. Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Lecturer, London School of Economics
- Kieron O'Brien, Director, Rosenblatt Group
- Sanjay Awasthi, Director, East Spring Investments
- Scott Nichols, Director of Trading, Rotella Capital
- Dr. Tommi A. Vuorenmaa, Head of Research and Trading, Valo Research and Trading
- Sam Tyfield, Partner, Vedder Price
- Hendrik Klein, Head Portfolio Manager, Da Vinci Invest AG
- Bill Barry, Former Managing Director, Knight Capital
- Dan Keegan, Options Instructor and Head Options Mentor, The Chicago School of Trading
- Ram Ahluwalia, Portfolio Manager, Winged Foot Capital
- Dr. Walter Distaso, Professor of Financial Econometrics, Imperial College London
- Edgar Perez, Author, The Speed Traders
- Robert Cohen, Assistant Director, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Morgan Hill, Chief Operating Officer, Attis Capital
- Daniel Gramza, President, Gramza Capital Management

High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 is produced by Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.net), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs and investors. Panelists, speakers and sponsors are invited to download our Information Package or contact Golden Networking directly by calling +1-414-FORUMS0 or sending an email to information@goldennetworking.net.

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Tech2Trade Expo 2013 New York City to Discuss HFT not Driving Investors from the Stock Market

Golden Networking brings Tech2Trade Expo 2013 (www.Tech2TradeExpo.com), World's Most Influential Alternative Investments Conference Series, including High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013, "Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, Speed Traders, Brokers and Exchanges," New York City, London, Chicago, Singapore and Frankfurt (www.High-Frequency-Trading-Conference.com).

New York City, NY, USA (July 12, 2013) -- For a long time, only a tiny group of folks like me cared about the structures through which investors' orders to buy and sell stocks and other financial instruments were actually traded. Lately, that has changed, as it will be noted at High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 New York City, July 30th, as part of Tech2Trade Expo 2013 New York City (http://www.Tech2TradeExpo.com).

According to a Financial Times op-ed, a few years ago, during the peak of the financial crisis, the rest of the world started waking up to what my fellow geeks and I had long known: US equity market structure had undergone a vast, long-term transformation - from a simple, mostly manual system to an extraordinarily complex, highly automated one - and that this metamorphosis was spreading to other markets globally.

Once relegated to obscure trade journals and dry industry conferences, market structure is now front-page news. And that coverage tends to focus on episodes in which technology fails: the 2010 "flash crash" in US markets and, in 2012, the aborted initial public offering of exchange company BATS Global Markets, systems troubles that affected the Facebook IPO and a software glitch at Knight Capital Group.

News stories, blogs and social media posts refer ominously to such incidents and, generally, to high-frequency trading, as seriously damaging investor confidence. The average reader could be forgiven for thinking that worries over HFT and modern market structure are driving mom-and-pop investors from the stock market in droves, like so many terrified villagers in a Godzilla film.

Justin Schack, managing director and partner at Rosenblatt Securities in New York, agrees that today's structure may not be pretty, and elements of it surely need fixing, but it wound up delivering better outcomes for end investors than what it replaced. Transaction cost data from multiple vendors show that institutional investors can implement ideas far more cheaply today than before the transformation. This includes not just exchange fees and broker commissions, but also the price impact of large trades hitting the market. New, fundamental changes to market-structure regulation could trigger another transformative cycle, with no guarantee that investor outcomes would improve in the end.

Golden Networking's High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 will examine the speed trading industry from various angles, in an opened and unbiased environment highly conducive to networking. Topics to be discussed at High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 will include:

- Low Latency: How can Ultra-Low Latency be Achieved for High-Frequency Trading?
- Emerging Markets: How will Emerging Markets from Brazil to China Affect the Scope of High-frequency Trading?
- Robotic Markets: As High-frequency Trading Embraces Robotic Markets Worldwide, How Will Participants be Able to Find new Opportunities to Sustain Alpha Creation?
- Regulatory Impact: With High-frequency Trading in the Spotlight, how will New Regulations Change the Industry?
- The Future of HFT: How will High-frequency Trading Evolve in Ever-changing Technology and Regulatory Environments?

Tech2Trade Expo 2013, to be held in New York City, London, Chicago, Singapore and Frankfurt, is the world's most influential alternative investments forum for the hedge fund, high-frequency trading and derivatives communities. With dozens of practitioners, experts and regulators speaking in our programs, Tech2Trade Expo 2013 provides hundreds of investors, traders and portfolio managers with the key lessons, proven recipes and penetrating insights they are looking for to capture alpha in up and down markets.

High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 is produced by Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.net), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs and investors. Panelists, speakers and sponsors are invited to download our Information Package or contact Golden Networking directly by calling +1-414-FORUMS0 or sending an email to information@goldennetworking.net.

Media Contact:
Julia Petrova
Media Relations Coordinator
Golden Networking
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Breakthrough in U.S.-China Trade Negotiations at Golden Networking's China Happy Hour New York City

China Happy Hour New York City (www.chinahappyhour.com), Every 4th Tuesday, Brings Together Chinese Business Leaders for Evenings of Fast-paced Networking and Cocktails in Midtown Manhattan.

New York City, NY, USA (July 12, 2013) -- There is often a lot of effervescence that comes out of diplomatic meetings, says The Wall Street Journal's John Bussey. And so it was today Thursday, when the U.S. announced a "breakthrough" in trade talks with China-the same negotiations that, over many years, have produced lots of promises and little progress. What happened was that the two sides agreed to continue negotiating a so-called bilateral investment treaty, or BIT, but under a new model treaty announced last year that has additional market-opening requirements.

Among the reasons China wants a treaty is that it has very big investment ambitions in the U.S. Some of its investments have been blocked by U.S. national security concerns, and for other reasons. An investment treaty would give China a lot more clarity about the rules of the road, give it a way to appeal for compensation if a deal is blocked, and provide China something of an overall seal of approval. Some Chinese leaders also want to use a trade deal to force additional economic reform at home.

The U.S. wants a treaty because companies-from oil drillers to bankers-still don't have the market access China promised when it signed previous trade pacts, notably when it entered the WTO. What do Chinese business executives and journalists want in New York City? They all just want to attend Golden Networking's China Happy Hour (http://www.ChinaHappyHour.com), the best China networking in the Big Apple, to be held Tuesday July 23rd, 6PM.

Companies represented in past editions of Golden Networking's Happy Hour include Alaris Trading Partners, Andrews Securities, Apollo Advisors, Atlantic Advisory Group, Avatar, Blackstone, Capital Advisors, Citadel, Citi, CNBC, Comscient, Credit Suisse, DE Shaw, Deutsche Bank, Duane Morris, Eagle View Asset Management, Falcon Technology Systems, General Atlantic, GETCO, Goldman Sachs, Greyfields, IBM, Infinium Capital, KKR, Lightspeed, Lime Brokerage, Mahogany Partners, MNG Capital, Monolith Capital Trading Partners, Morgan Stanley, MSF Capital Advisors, Nirvana Capital, Nobilis Capital, OneMarketData, OneTick, Providence, RBS, SBS Securities, Silver Lake, The Carlyle Group, Twin Capital Management, UBS, among others.

Panelists, speakers and sponsors are invited to contact Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.com) by calling +1-414-FORUMS0 or sending an email to info@goldennetworking.net. Golden Networking has been frequently featured in the press, including articles in The Wall Street Journal, "Happy Hour for High-Frequency Trading", The New York Times, "Golden Networking Helps Job Seekers Make Overseas Connections", Los Angeles Times, "Speed-addicted traders dominate today's stock market" and Reuters, "Revamp looms as trading experts huddle at SEC".

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Best China Business and Finance Networking in New York City at China Happy Hour Next Tuesday 23

China Happy Hour New York City (www.chinahappyhour.com), Every 4th Tuesday, Brings Together Chinese Business Leaders for Evenings of Fast-paced Networking and Cocktails in Midtown Manhattan.

New York City, NY, USA (July 12, 2013) -- Golden Networking's China Happy Hour has become the best well-attended networking series in New York City, providing business executives and journalists with the best China networking in New York City. China Happy Hour (http://www.ChinaHappyHour.com) is held every fourth Tuesday of the month, this time, on July 23rd, 6PM. China Happy Hour have been known to attract executives and professionals not only from China but also from South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and India, among other nationalities.

Companies represented in past editions of Golden Networking's Happy Hour include Alaris Trading Partners, Andrews Securities, Apollo Advisors, Atlantic Advisory Group, Avatar, Blackstone, Capital Advisors, Citadel, Infinium Capital, KKR, Lightspeed, Lime Brokerage, Mahogany Partners, MNG Capital , Monolith Capital Trading Partners, Morgan Stanley, MSF Capital Advisors, Nirvana Capital, Nobilis Capital, OneMarketData, Citi, CNBC, Comscient, Credit Suisse, DE Shaw, Deutsche Bank, Duane Morris, Eagle View Asset Management, Falcon Technology Systems, General Atlantic, GETCO, Goldman Sachs, Greyfields, IBM, OneTick, Providence, RBS, SBS Securities, Silver Lake, The Carlyle Group, Twin Capital Management, UBS, among others.

Golden Networking is the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs and professionals, to experience what is new and next. They are treated to exclusive industry-wide Leaders and Experts Forums, Experts Workshops, Business Receptions and Professional Nights, which have been featured in the business and financial press. Golden Networking provides company owners and business executives a platform to expand their firms' revenues through networking, introduction to key players and sponsorship of our functions. There is virtually no individual or company in any industry or country in the world that can't be reached through Golden Networking.

Panelists, speakers and sponsors are invited to contact Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.com) by calling +1-414-FORUMS0 or sending an email to info@goldennetworking.net. Golden Networking has been frequently featured in the press, including articles in The Wall Street Journal, "Happy Hour for High-Frequency Trading", The New York Times, "Golden Networking Helps Job Seekers Make Overseas Connections", Los Angeles Times, "Speed-addicted traders dominate today's stock market" and Reuters, "Revamp looms as trading experts huddle at SEC".

Media Contact:
Julia Petrova
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Golden Networking
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How High Is High-Frequency Trading at Tech2Trade Expo 2013 New York City, World Financial Center

Golden Networking brings Tech2Trade Expo 2013 (www.Tech2TradeExpo.com), World's Most Influential Alternative Investments Conference Series, including High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013, "Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, Speed Traders, Brokers and Exchanges," New York City, London, Chicago, Singapore and Frankfurt (www.High-Frequency-Trading-Conference.com).

New York City, NY, USA (July 12, 2013) -- PBS News Hour just reviewed high-frequency trading, which represents more than half of all transactions of American stocks these days; but just how fast is high-frequency? So fast, it turns out, that data companies now provide financial data to their most premium subscribers early -- as little as two milliseconds early in the case of a $20,000-per-month service the Nasdaq and Chicago Mercantile Exchange debuted in May using microwave networks. That time difference is enough to gain quite the financial advantage.

One key data provider, Thomson Reuters, announced this week it was suspending its 9:54:58 a.m. release of the University of Michigan's consumer confidence data to about a dozen premium subscribers (not to be confused with those regular money management customers who pay to receive the data at 9:55 a.m., a measly five minutes before the University of Michigan posts the consumer confidence index online) while New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman investigates the practice.

Thomson Reuters maintains that their 9:54:58 a.m. release, for which some clients pay more than $6,000 a month, does not violate federal insider trading laws since they disclose the tiered pricing to all customers.

So how and why do traders capitalize on those all-important two seconds? That is a topic of discussion at High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 New York City, July 30th, as part of Tech2Trade Expo 2013 New York City (http://www.Tech2TradeExpo.com), at the World Financial Center.

Golden Networking's High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 will examine the speed trading industry from various angles, in an opened and unbiased environment highly conducive to networking. Topics to be discussed at High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 will include:

- Low Latency: How can Ultra-Low Latency be Achieved for High-Frequency Trading?
- Emerging Markets: How will Emerging Markets from Brazil to China Affect the Scope of High-frequency Trading?
- Robotic Markets: As High-frequency Trading Embraces Robotic Markets Worldwide, How Will Participants be Able to Find new Opportunities to Sustain Alpha Creation?
- Regulatory Impact: With High-frequency Trading in the Spotlight, how will New Regulations Change the Industry?
- The Future of HFT: How will High-frequency Trading Evolve in Ever-changing Technology and Regulatory Environments?

Tech2Trade Expo 2013, to be held in New York City, London, Chicago, Singapore and Frankfurt, is the world's most influential alternative investments forum for the hedge fund, high-frequency trading and derivatives communities. With dozens of practitioners, experts and regulators speaking in our programs, Tech2Trade Expo 2013 provides hundreds of investors, traders and portfolio managers with the key lessons, proven recipes and penetrating insights they are looking for to capture alpha in up and down markets:

- Alexander Fleiss, CIO and Co-Founder, Rebellion Research
- Thomas Kirchner, President, Pennsylvania Avenue Funds
- Jitesh Thakkar, President, Edge Financial Technologies
- James Koutoulas, CEO, Typhon Capital Management
- Sayena Mostowfi, Senior Analyst, The Tabb Group
- Marcus Storr, Head of Hedge Funds, Feri Institutional
- Carol Clark, Sr. Policy Specialist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- R. Scott Morris, President, Morris Consulting
- Nimesh Bharadia, CEO and Founder, The Kaiman Group
- Alison Graham, Chief Investment Officer, Voltan Capital Management
- Jonathan Kanterman, Partner, Institutional Asset Advisors
- Matthew Magidson, Partner, Lowenstein Sandler PC
- V.J. Angelo, Director, Global Markets Exchange Group
- Sanjeev Sharma, Contributing Writer, SeekingAlpha.com
- Dr. Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Lecturer, London School of Economics
- Kieron O'Brien, Director, Rosenblatt Group
- Sanjay Awasthi, Director, East Spring Investments
- Scott Nichols, Director of Trading, Rotella Capital
- Dr. Tommi A. Vuorenmaa, Head of Research and Trading, Valo Research and Trading
- Sam Tyfield, Partner, Vedder Price
- Hendrik Klein, Head Portfolio Manager, Da Vinci Invest AG
- Bill Barry, Former Managing Director, Knight Capital
- Dan Keegan, Options Instructor and Head Options Mentor, The Chicago School of Trading
- Ram Ahluwalia, Portfolio Manager, Winged Foot Capital
- Dr. Walter Distaso, Professor of Financial Econometrics, Imperial College London
- Edgar Perez, Author, The Speed Traders
- Robert Cohen, Assistant Director, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Morgan Hill, Chief Operating Officer, Attis Capital
- Daniel Gramza, President, Gramza Capital Management

High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 is produced by Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.net), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs and investors. Panelists, speakers and sponsors are invited to download our Information Package or contact Golden Networking directly by calling +1-414-FORUMS0 or sending an email to information@goldennetworking.net.

Media Contact:
Julia Petrova
Media Relations Coordinator
Golden Networking
+1-414-FORUMS0