Edgar
Perez, former McKinsey and IBM consultant, is a global expert, author
of The Speed Traders, Knightmare on Wall Street, and the course
director of The Speed Traders Workshop, "How Banks, Hedge and
Mutual Funds and Brokers Battle Markets 'RIGGED' by Wall Street's
'Flash Boys', High-frequency Trading, Exchanges and Dark Pools",
in New York City, Washington DC, Boston, Munich, London, Dubai,
Brussels, Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai.
New
York, NY, USA (April 28, 2014) -- The development of federal
securities law was spurred by the stock market crash of 1929, and the
resulting Great Depression. In the period leading up to the stock
market crash, companies issued stock and enthusiastically promoted
the value of their company to induce investors to purchase those
securities. Doesn't' that sound eerily familiar to investors at the
beginning of the Internet era?
Brokers
in turn sold this stock to investors based on promises of large
profits but with little disclosure of relevant information about the
company. In many cases, the promises made by companies and brokers
had little or no substantive basis, or were wholly fraudulent. With
thousands of investors buying up stock in hopes of huge profits, the
market was in a state of speculative frenzy that ended in October
1929, when the market crashed as panicky investors sold off their
investments en masse.
Fast
forward 85 years and practitioners can review how far markets have
gone at The Speed Traders Workshop, "How Banks, Hedge and Mutual
Funds and Brokers Battle Markets 'RIGGED' by Wall Street's 'Flash
Boys', High-frequency Trading, Exchanges and Dark Pools"
(http://www.thespeedtradersworkshop.com),
the first and most comprehensive initiation to the world of
high-frequency trading with Edgar Perez, author of Knightmare on Wall
Street (http://www.knightmareonwallstreet.com).
The Speed Traders Workshop will open the door to the secretive world
of computerized low-latency trading, the most controversial form of
investing today; in the name of protecting the algorithms they have
spent so much time perfecting, speed traders almost never talk to the
press and try to disclose as little as possible about how they
operate.
The
Speed Traders Workshop, to be held in New York City, Washington DC,
Boston, Munich, London, Dubai, Brussels, Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai,
covers the latest research currently available and reveals how
high-frequency trading players are operating in global markets and
driving the development of electronic trading at breakneck speeds
from the U.S. and Europe to Japan, India, and Brazil. The "flash
crash", the suspended BATS IPO, the botched Facebook IPO, Knight
Capital's trading malfunction and NASDAQ's Flash Freeze are just a
few of the milestones in the history of high-frequency trading that
will be dissected with participants.
Mr.
Perez has been interviewed on CNN's Quest Means Business, CNBC's
Squawk on the Street, Worldwide Exchange, Cash Flow and Squawk Box,
FOX BUSINESS's Countdown to the Closing Bell and After the Bell,
Bloomberg TV's Market Makers, CNN en Español's Dinero, Sina Finance,
BNN's Business Day, CCTV China, Bankier.pl, TheStreet.com,
Leaderonomics, GPW Media, Channel NewsAsia's Business Tonight and
Cents & Sensibilities. In addition, Mr. Perez has been globally
featured on WILS 1320's Capital City Recap, FXFactor, Columbia
Business, OpenMarkets, Sohu, News.Sina.com, Yicai, eastmoney,
Caijing, ETF88.com, 360doc, AH Radio, CNFOL.com, CITICS Futures,
Tongxin Securities, ZhiCheng.com, CBNweek.com, 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, The
Malaysian Insider, 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.
Mr.
Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM,
and a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City. Mr.
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.
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