1. For Immediate Release
Janine Nipal
Media Relations Coordinator
The Speed Traders
516-761-4712
jnipal@thespeedtraders.com
http://www.thespeedtraders.com
Why Ultra High-Frequency Trading Matters at The
Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Beijing
Edgar Perez's The Speed Traders: An Insider's Look at the New High-Frequency Trading
Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, Presenting The Speed Traders Workshop
2012 Beijing, China, "How Algorithmic and High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies
to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX", May 30, 2012
(April 11, 2012, New York) Understanding High-Frequency Trading in Equities and other Asset Classes is
the first session Mr. Edgar 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), will
present at The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Beijing, "How Algorithmic and High Frequency Traders
Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX"
(http://www.TheSpeedTradersWorkshop.com), May 30. The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Beijing will be
extremely helpful for all delegates who are working in finance and investments, from financial institutions,
investment banks, hedge funds, pension funds, broker dealers, consultancy groups, prime brokers, solution
providers and exchanges, who wish to gain a thorough understanding and practical knowledge of high-
frequency trading.
High-frequency traders have been called many things, from masters of the universe and market pioneers to
exploiters, computer geeks, and even predators. Everyone in the business of investing has an opinion of speed
traders, but how many really understand how they operate? The shadow people of the investing world,
today’s high-frequency traders have decidedly kept a low profile, until now. The Speed Traders Workshop
2012 Beijing will discuss in this session:
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. The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Beijing, led by Edgar Perez, author of The Speed Traders, will reveal 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.
Edgar Perez is widely regarded as the preeminent speaker 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 by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011) and currently being translated
into Chinese and 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, Sao
Paulo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Warsaw, Kiev, New York, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Jakarta, London,
Mexico City, Moscow, Dubai 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).
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