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

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High-Frequency Trading Regulatory Changes 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 12, 2012, New York) Global Regulatory Overview: from the U.S. and Europe to China and Brazil is
the third 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.
The Speed Traders, published by McGraw-Hill Inc., available online at amazon.com, Barnes & Noble,
BORDERS, and INDIEBOUND, among multiple bookstores, is the most comprehensive, revealing work
available on the most important development in trading in generations. High-frequency trading will no doubt
play an ever larger role as computer technology advances and the global exchanges embrace fast electronic
access. The Speed Traders explains everything there is to know about how today's high-frequency traders
make millions—one cent at a time. In this new title, The Speed Traders, Mr. Perez opens the door to the
secretive world of high-frequency trading. Inside, prominent figures drop their guard and speak with
unprecedented candidness about their trade.
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,

2. today’s high-frequency traders have decidedly kept a low profile, until now. The Speed Traders Workshop
2012 Beijing will discuss in this session:
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
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.
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 17th Annual 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.
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