The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 DVD is now available, featuring Edgar Perez presenting on high frequency trading strategies. Perez is a former McKinsey consultant and author of "The Speed Traders", and is regarded as a leading expert on algorithmic and high frequency trading. The DVD opens the door to the secretive world of high-frequency trading, revealing how these traders leverage strategies across equities, options, futures and FX markets globally to generate alpha. Perez has extensive speaking experience on the topic and professional background in finance, consulting and trading.

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The Ultimate Reference on Algorithmic and High
Frequency Trading Now on DVD
Edgar Perez, Author, The Speed Traders, Presenting The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 DVD Video
Package, How High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options,
Futures and FX
(February 1, 2013, New York)The ultimate reference on algorithmic and high frequency trading is now available on
DVD; no other than Edgar Perez, the former McKinsey consultant, Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of
New York University and author of The Speed Traders, is presenting The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 DVD Video
Package: How High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and
FX (http://thespeedtradersworkshopdvd.eventbrite.com); Perez has been widely regarded as the preeminent speaker
and networker in the specialized area 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 Speed Traders Workshop 2012 DVD Video Package opens the door to
the secretive world of high-frequency trading, the most controversial form of investing today; in the name of
protecting the algorithms they have spent so much time perfecting, speed traders disclose as little as possible about
how they operate. The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 DVD Video Package reveals 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.
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 NewsAsiaAsia 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 Venture Capital &
Private Equity Conference, High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011, CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities
Institute, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (New York), Global Growth Markets

2. Forum (London), Technical Analysis Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia (Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face
(Seoul), and Private Equity Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia (London), among other global forums.
Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company in New
York City. 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, with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He belongs to the Beta Gamma
Sigma honor society.
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