Edgar
Perez, Author, The Speed Traders: An Insider's Look at the New
High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing
World, Published by in English by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011), Mandarin
by China Financial Publishing House (2012) and Bahasa Indonesia by
Kompas Gramedia (2012).
New
York City, NY, USA (June 13, 2013) -- Edgar Perez, author of The
Speed Traders (http://www.TheSpeedTraders.com)
and the forthcoming Knightmare on Wall Street
(http://www.KnightmareonWallStreet.com),
was recently featured on the cover of FXFactor, Ukraine's most
prestigious financial and business magazine. Previously, Perez had
presented his latest research on the subject of high-frequency
trading at Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University
(http://kneu.edu.ua).
FXFactor
(http://fxfactor.ua)
provides readers with engaging and useful information about the basic
mechanisms of the financial capitals of the world, from updates about
currencies, stocks and other markets, interviews with representatives
of major financial companies, to surveys and forecasts of the leading
financial analysts. Experienced specialists share their views on the
prospects of the economy, the likely scenarios of behavior of
individual markets and financial instruments.
FXFactor,
the only publication that covers the currencies market, provides
comprehensive information about brokers in Russia and Ukraine. In
addition, readers will learn about innovations in the industry, news
of the banking sector and the latest in the real estate market.
A
unique category of the magazine is called “Lessons of Currency
Trading for Beginners”. Throughout the year, FXFactor publishes 12
lessons that introduce beginners to the principles of the Forex
market and help them to develop a successful trading strategy. And at
the end of the year, FXFactor publishes an special issue that gathers
all the lessons with expert commentary.
Perez
is widely regarded as the preeminent global expert in the specialized
area of high-frequency trading. He wrote 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 Bahasa Indonesia by Kompas Gramedia (2012). The Speed Traders
(http://www.TheSpeedTraders.com)
quickly became the most comprehensive, revealing work available on
the most important development in trading in generations; The Speed
Traders explains everything there is to know about how today's
high-frequency traders make millions, one cent at a time.
Perez
is also course director of 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),
seminars provided in Sao Paulo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Warsaw, Kiev,
New York, Beijing and Shanghai. He was Adjunct Professor at the
Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he taught
Algorithmic Trading and High-Frequency Finance. Perez contributes
regularly to The New York Times and China's International Finance
News.
Perez
has been engaged to present to the Council on Foreign Relations, 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
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 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, 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
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 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.
Perez resides in the New York City area and is an accomplished salsa
and hustle dancer.
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