Edgar
Perez, Author, The Speed Traders, Speaker at The Speed Traders
Workshop 2012 New York (www.thespeedtradersworkshop.com),
How Algorithmic and High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable
Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX,
September 25.
New
York City, NY, USA (September 20, 2012) -- The Wall Street
Journal' Scott Patterson reports that an insider of the secretive
world of high-frequency trading is set to attack that industry on
Capitol Hill, giving lawmakers a potential road map to address
practices that critics say can put ordinary investors at a
disadvantage and the financial system at risk. Just north in New York
City, Edgar Perez will present 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),
on September 25.
Since
rapid-fire trading firms now provide many of the buy and sell orders
that support the market, investors are at the mercy of automated
systems that can run amok during volatile times.
Regulators
are looking into whether exchanges, in a rush to gain the business of
high-frequency firms, have provided advantages to some sophisticated
trading firms that allow them to trade profitably at the expense of
other investors, according to people familiar with the continuing
probes. High-frequency trading accounts for some two-thirds of all
trading volume, experts say.
The
SEC is conducting an inquiry into whether high-frequency firms use
those order types to jump in front of other investors. In a page-one
article Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Haim Bodek,
who helped run a high-frequency trading firm, told SEC enforcement
officials last year that he believed exchanges were giving certain
sophisticated trading firms special advantages that helped them beat
out other investors.
The
Speed Traders Workshop 2012 New York promises to
reveal how high-frequency trading players are succeeding in the
global markets and driving the development of algorithmic trading at
breakneck speeds from the U.S. and Europe to India, Singapore and
Brazil. The Flash Crash, the suspended BATS IPO, the botched Facebook
IPO and Knight Capital’s trading malfunction are just a few of the
events in the history of high-frequency trading that will be
dissected at The Speed Traders Workshop 2012.
Who
should attend? Anybody involved with Algorithmic Trading, Automated
Trading, Commodities, Commodities Trading, Credit Derivatives, Dark
Pools Trading, Data Monitoring / Analysis, DMA Analysts, Derivatives
Trading, Electronic Execution, Electronic Trading, Equity Trading,
Exchange-Traded Instruments, Family Offices, Financial Engineering,
Fixed Income / Currencies Trading, Futures, Hedge Funds Traders and
Managers, High-Frequency Trading, Information Technology,
Institutional Investors, Investment Banking, Market Makers,
Operations, Options, Over-the-counter Derivatives, Portfolio
Management, Proprietary Trading, Quantitative Trading, Regulatory
Entities, Risk Management, Analysis and Control, Statistical
Arbitrage, Structured Products Hedging and Trading Technology.
Perez
is widely regarded as the preeminent global expert in the specialized
area of high-frequency trading. He is author of 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. He is course director of The Speed Traders Workshop
2012, How High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to
Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX (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), and was Adjunct Professor at the
Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he taught
Algorithmic Trading and High-Frequency Finance. He contributes
regularly to The New York Times and 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 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.
Perez
has been engaged to present to the CME Group's Global Financial
Leadership Conference 2012, 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.
The
Speed Traders Workshop 2012 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 contact Golden Networking by sending an email to
info@goldennetworking.net.
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