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) -- Michael Lewis, the famous
Liar's Poker author, couldn't have timed Flash Boys better if he'd
tried. His blockbuster new book about high-frequency trading came out
in a blaze of publicity during exactly the same week as a
little-known Wall Street company named Virtu was scheduled to start
marketing its initial public offering of shares, according to
Reuters' Felix Salmon. For him, Flash Boys is unapologetically
polemical: The New York Times reviewed it twice on the day it came
out, with Andrew Ross Sorkin calling it a "a
make-your-blood-boil read" and Janet Maslin saying that it "is
guaranteed to make blood boil."
According
to Salmon, Lewis' pugnacious style is fine and good-journalism should
make you angry. But the problem with Flash Boys, he claims, is that
the demands that master storyteller Lewis makes of his narrative
don't align well with the structural problems of HFT that Lewis the
journalist should want to expose. The result is that the general
public, after reading this book or watching Lewis on 60 Minutes, will
think that the scandal of HFT is that they're being ripped off, and
that the stock market is a scam.
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),
demonstrates why neither of these statements is true. The Speed
Traders Workshop is 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),
and 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 engaged to present at the Council on Foreign
Relations, Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University (Kiev),
Quant Investment & HFT Summit APAC 2012 (Shanghai), 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 (London
and Shanghai) and Pace University (New York), among other public and
private institutions. In addition, Mr. Perez has spoken at a number
of global conferences, including Inside Market Data 2013 (Chicago),
Emerging Markets Investments Summit 2013 (Warsaw), CME Group's Global
Financial Leadership Conference 2012 (Naples Beach), Harvard Business
School's Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference (Boston),
High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New York, Chicago, London), 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).
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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