1. For Immediate Release
Julia Petrova
Media Relations Coordinator
The Speed Traders
516-761-4712
jpetrova@thespeedtraders.com
http://www.thespeedtraders.com
High-Frequency Trading Review in China with The Speed
Traders Workshop 2012 Beijing
Edgar Perez, Author, The Speed Traders, Speaker at The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Beijing: How High
Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX, May
30th
(April 15, 2012, New York) Edgar Perez, author of The Speed Traders, will conduct the most thorough review of
high-frequency trading at his upcoming The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Beijing: How High Frequency Traders
Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX, May 30th.
Mr. 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

2. 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.
The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Beijing 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. The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Beijing kicks off a series of presentations in the
world’s most important financial centers: Warsaw, Poland, May 11; Kiev, Ukraine, May 18; Shanghai, China, June 6;
Jakarta, Indonesia, June 13; Mexico City, Mexico, July 27; Hong Kong, August 4, and Moscow, Russia, August 10.
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