Warsaw, Kiev, Beijing, Shanghai, Jakarta, Seoul, London, Hong Kong, Moscow… Not Lady Gaga's Tour

April 21, 2012 - PRLog -- ) Golden Networking unveiled dates today for Edgar Perez's full-day seminar, The Speed Traders Workshop 2012: How Algorithmic and High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX in Europe, presentations that will be followed by the rest of the world including dates in Southeast Asia, Latin America and North America, as published at http://www.TheSpeedTradersWorkshop.com.

The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul and Kuala Lumpur put 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), published by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011) and currently being translated into Chinese and Portuguese, on the map as the preeminent global expert in algorithmic and high-frequency trading.

The global high-frequency tour's first leg will hit Europe and Asia through early June, encompassing 5 presentations at major financial centers that include Warsaw, Kiev, Beijing, Shanghai, Jakarta and Seoul. Perez will also present in New York and London. Beyond that, current plans call for him to visit Hong Kong in August, followed by Moscow, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore towards the beginning of the fall, and then Chicago in October.

Perez is widely regarded as the preeminent speaker in the specialized area of high-frequency trading. Perez has been featured on CNBC Cash Flow (with Oriel Morrison), CNBC Squawk Box (with Geoff Cutmore), BNN Business Day (with Kim Parlee), TheStreet.com (with Gregg Greenberg), Channel NewsAsia Business Tonight and Cents & Sensibilities (with Lin Xue Ling), NHK World, iMoney Hong Kong, Hedge Fund Brief, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Valor Econômico, The Korea Herald, FIXGlobal Trading, The Korea Times, TODAY Online, Oriental Daily News and Business Times.

Perez has been engaged to present to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities Institute, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and Pace University, 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 and London (http://www.HFTLeadersForum.com), 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 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.

The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 kicks off 2012 with a series of presentations in the world’s most important financial centers: Warsaw, Poland, May 11; Kiev, Ukraine, May 18; New York, May 22; Beijing, China, May 30; Shanghai, China, June 6; Jakarta, Indonesia, June 13; Seoul, South Korea, June 21; London, June 26; Mexico City, Mexico, July 27; Hong Kong, August 4; Moscow, Russia, August 10; Dubai, UAE, September 9; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 12; Singapore, September 15, and Chicago, October 2.