Come Celebrate With Edgar Perez on His New Release of The Speed Traders in Chinese, China Happy Hour

July 18, 2012 - PRLog -- The Speed Traders, An Insider’s Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World (http://www.thespeedtraders.com), Edgar Perez’s ground breaking work on high frequency trading, is now available in Mandarin, courtesy of Chinese Financial Publishing House.  Unlike other works about high-frequency trading, Perez’s book provides readers with fresh, candid insight from the industry’s top high-frequency trading players.

Mr. Perez is widely regarded as the preeminent speaker in the specialized area of high-frequency trading.  He is the author of The Speed Traders, published by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011) and currently being translated into Portuguese, and 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, Mexico City, Moscow, Shanghai, New York and Chicago).

Mr. 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.

Mr. 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, Mr. 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, London), 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).

Mr. Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM, and a consultant at McKinsey & Co. 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, New York, with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He belongs to the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Mr. Perez resides in the New York City area and is an accomplished salsa and hustle dancer.

Edgar Perez will also continue his upcoming series of presentations, The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 (http://www.TheSpeedTradersWorkshop.com), the most thorough review of high-frequency trading in the world’s most important financial centers: Mexico City, July 27; Shanghai, August 1; Hong Kong, August 4; Moscow, August 10; Jakarta, September 7; Singapore, September 15; New York, September 25; Chicago, October 9 and Dubai, October 14.

China Happy Hour (http://www.chinahappyhour.com) will be held next Tuesday on July 24th; these receptions have been known to attract executives and professionals not only from China but also from South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and India, among other nationalities.

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