Dispelling Myth of Clear and Present HFT Danger at The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 DVD Video Package

Edgar Perez, Author, The Speed Traders, Now Introducing The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 DVD Video Package, 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, Beijing, and Shanghai). End Quote

(1888PressRelease) February 09, 2013 - (New York) According to Fox Business, data from Trim Tabs Investment Research appears to support the concern that high-frequency trading is a clear and present danger to the equity markets, prompting increasing outflows. Trim Tabs data show outflows from U.S. equity mutual funds in 2008 hit a record $148 billion; in 2009, confidence appeared to be stabilizing as outflows from U.S. equity mutual funds totaled just $28 billion. But Seth Merrin, CEO of Liquidnet, said the "Flash Crash" in 2010 dealt a blow to investor confidence that has yet to recover. Trim Tabs reports outflows from U.S. equity mutual funds in 2010 hit $81 billion, $132 billion in 2011 and last year totaled $130 billion.

The note concludes quoting Trim Tabs COO Minyi Chen, who says, "High frequency trading undermines investor confidence and they (investors) want other types of investment vehicles that offer higher liquidity than mutual funds -- for example ETFs." How much of this is a myth? The answer is presented by Edgar Perez, author of The Speed Traders, and former McKinsey & Co. consultant and New York University Adjunct Professor, 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), the most comprehensive review of high frequency trading now available for the very first time on DVD in an insightful 4-disc set.

As Mr. Perez covers in The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 DVD Video Package, 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 position at the end of a trading day, mostly employed by proprietary firms or proprietary trading desks in hedge funds and banks, and very sensitive to the processing speed of markets and of their own access to the market. The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 DVD Video Package displays an agenda full of information and insights:

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 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 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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