Edgar
Perez, Author, 'The Speed Traders, An Insider's Look at the New
High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing
World' and Course Director, The Speed Traders Workshop 2013,
Previewing 'Knightmare on Wall Street' in London and Kiev.
New
York City, NY, USA (April 15, 2013) -- Edgar Perez, author of The
Speed Traders, An Insider's Look at the New High-Frequency Trading
Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World
(http://www.TheSpeedTraders.com),
spoke at High-frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 London
(http://www.HFT-Leaders-Forum.com)
and Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University
(http://kneu.edu.ua),
and offered a preview of his forthcoming book Knightmare on Wall
Street (http://www.KnightmareonWallStreet.com).
Knight
Capital was one of the companies whose fortune had risen as U.S.
regulators made a series of changes in the structure of financial
markets over the last 15 years. On Wednesday August 1, 2012, 9:30am,
right after the markets opened for the day, the firm would issue an
unprecedented number of erroneous orders into the market. What
followed after this shocking announcement were rounds of
conversations with a number of players that had smelled blood and
were ready to pick up the pieces, if not stopped by an unprecedented
frantic telephone activity in an industry where everybody knows
everybody. Knightmare on Wall Street is the behind-the-scenes story
of this epic event; it will provide a comprehensive account of what
took to elevate Knight Capital to the cusp of the investing
revolution of the late 1990s and what almost brought down the firm.
Edgar
Perez's first book, The Speed Traders. published in English by
McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011), Mandarin by China Financial Publishing House
(2012), and Bahasa Indonesia by Kompas Gramedia (2012), provides "a
clear and informative read that can be useful to both seasoned
industry professionals and those who are only exploring the financial
industry" and has confirmed him as the preeminent global expert
in the specialized area of high-frequency trading. Perez has led 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),
Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Warsaw, Kiev, New York,
Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, 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 and Sina.
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 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 and is an accomplished salsa
and hustle dancer.
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