Understanding High Frequency Trading in Equities and other AssetClasses with The Speed Traders Works

June 27, 2012 - PRLog -- (June 27, 2012, New York) Understanding High Frequency Trading in Equities and other Asset Classes is one of the topics Mr. Edgar Perez, Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and author of The Speed Traders, presents in The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 DVD Video Package: How High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX (http://TheSpeedTradersWorkshopDVD.eventbrite.com), the world's most comprehensive review of high frequency trading now available for the very first time on DVD in an insightful 4-disc set:
•   The need for speed and sophisticated computer programs in generating, routing, and executing orders
•   Co-location and individual data feeds to minimize latency
•   Time-frames for establishing and closing highly-liquid positions
•   Review of the most important strategies: market making, trend following, value arbitrage and others

Mr. Perez is widely regarded as the preeminent speaker and networker in the specialized area of high-frequency trading. He 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 Asia 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, Los Angeles Times, TODAY Online, Oriental Daily News and Business Times. He has been engaged as speaker at Harvard Business School’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference, High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011 (New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Singapore), CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities Institute, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (New York), Global Growth Markets Forum (London), Technical Analysis Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia (Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face (Seoul), and 2nd Private Equity Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia (London), among other global forums.

Mr. Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company 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, with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He belongs to the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society.

The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 DVD Video Package reveals 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 Speed Traders Workshop 2012 brings the most updated review of high frequency trading to the world’s most important financial centers: Mexico City, July 27; Shanghai, August 1; Hong Kong, August 4; Moscow, August 10; Jakarta, September 7; Kuala Lumpur, September 12; Singapore, September 15; Ho Chi Minh, September 19; New York, September 25; Chicago, October 9; Dubai, October 14.