1. For Immediate Release
Julia Ye
Media Relations Coordinator
The Speed Traders
516-761-4712
jye@thespeedtraders.com
http://www.thespeedtraders.com
High-Frequency Trading World’s Capital Moving to China
with The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Shanghai
Edgar Perez, Author, The Speed Traders, Speaker at The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Shanghai
(September 5): How Algorithmic and High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha
in Equities, Options, Futures and FX(Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Warsaw, Kiev, New
York, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Jakarta, London, Mexico City, Moscow, Ho Chi Minh, New York,
Dubai and Chicago)
(August 28, 2012, New York)The high-frequency trading world’s capital is moving to China this week with Mr.
Edgar Perez, author of The Speed Traders, and former McKinsey & Co. consultant and New York University Adjunct
Professor, presentingThe Speed Traders Workshop 2012: How Algorithmic and High Frequency Traders Leverage
Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX
(http://www.TheSpeedTradersWorkshop.com), in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
As Mr. Perez will cover, high-frequency trading is the use of sophisticated technological tools to trade securities like
stocks or options, and is typically characterized by several distinguishing features:
Highly quantitative, employing computerized algorithms to analyze incoming market data and implement
proprietary trading strategies.
Investment positions are held only for very brief periods of time, from seconds to hours, and rapidly traded
into and out, sometimes thousands or tens of thousands of times a day.
No net investment positionat the end of a trading day.
Mostly employed by proprietary firms or proprietary trading desks in hedge funds and banks.
Very sensitive to the processing speed of markets and of their own access to the market.
Top securities firms and traders from China, Hong Kong and Singapore trading at Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange
(ZCE), Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE), Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE),
Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx), and Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX), are joining these enlightening
workshops, which display an agenda full of information and insights, as can be seen through the following sessions:

2. 1. Understanding High Frequency Trading in Equities and other Asset Classes
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
2. Key Enablers for High Frequency Trading
Technological innovation: computing power, complex event processing, and low-latency bandwidth
Shift to electronic trading and the rise of alternative trading systems
In-depth look at strategies high frequency traders leverage to find alpha in equities, options, futures
and FX
The profitability of typical high frequency trading strategies and its evolution
3. Global Regulatory Overview: from the U.S. and Europe to China and Brazil
Regulations in place before the "flash crash"
Proposed regulatory initiatives after the "flash crash" in the U.S. and Europe, circuit breakers, limit up
limit down and consolidated audit trail
High frequency trading in Asia, from Japan, Singapore and India to Hong Kong and China
Regulating speed trading to samba beats: Brazil and Mexico
4. The Future of High Frequency Trading
Enhancing profitability: from equities to FX to cross-asset trading
High frequency trading in the world: from the U.S. and Europe to China and Brazil
Adding ammunition to the high frequency trader toolkit, FPGA, GPUs and enhanced technologies
Turning the tables on high frequency trading: the transparency challenge for the buy-side
Mr. Perez is widely regarded as the preeminent global expert in the specialized area of high-frequency trading. He is
author of 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 currently being translated into Bahasa Indonesia and Portuguese. He is 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, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Warsaw, Kiev, New York,
Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Jakarta, London, Mexico City, Moscow, Ho Chi Minh, New York, Dubai and

3. Chicago), 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 China’s International Finance News.
Mr. Perez has been interviewed on CNBC Cash Flow, CNBC Squawk Box, BNN Business Day, CCTV China,
Bankier.pl, TheStreet.com, Leaderonomics, GPW Media, Channel NewsAsiaBusiness Tonight and Cents &
Sensibilities. In addition, Mr. 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.
Mr. 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, 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), 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 strategy 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.
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