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Edgar Perez, Author, The Speed Traders, Speaker at The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Jakarta: How Algorithmic and High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX, September 7 (June 19, 2012 New York) Mr. Edgar Perez, author, The Speed Traders, and former McKinsey & Co. consultant, will be leading The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Jakarta: How Algorithmic and High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX (www.TheSpeedTradersWorkshop.com), September 7, for the first time in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Mr. Perez is widely regarded as the preeminent speaker and networker 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 (www.thespeedtraders.com), published by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011) and currently being translated into Chinese, course director of The Speed Traders Workshop 2012, How Algorithmic and High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX (Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul, and Kuala Lumpur), and founder of Golden Networking.

(March 31, 2012, New York) Gains in macroeconomic and political stability in Indonesia have unleashed a level of consumer and business confidence unseen in decades that has led to a consumerism and investment boom, said a senior Deutsche Bank economist. Taimur Baig, Deutsche Bank's chief economist for Indonesia, India and Singapore, was speaking on the sidelines of the Deutsche Bank Asia Pacific Advisory Board (APAB) meeting in Jakarta on Thursday.

"After a decade of leveraging following the 1997/98 financial crisis, the Indonesian economy is today characterized by low household and public sector leverage, favorable demographics, a rich commodity base, and an 'aspirational' and growing middle-class," said Baig. "Indonesia has appeared to hit a sweet spot in recent years - its time has come," he said, adding that Jakarta was a fitting host city for the two-day APAB meeting given the growth in both the local economy and the scale of Deutsche's business in Indonesia.

Many high-frequency traders collect tiny gains, often measured in pennies, on short-term market gyrations. They hunt for temporary "inefficiencies" in the market and trade in ways that can make them money before the brief distortions go away. Market-making, high-frequency firms hope to make money on the difference between how much investors are willing to buy and sell a stock, or the "bid-ask spread." They do this by selling and buying on both sides of the trade. Many exchanges offer "rebates" of about one-third of a penny a share to outfits that are willing to step up and provide shares when needed.

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 institutions. In addition, Mr. Perez has spoken at Harvard Business School's Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference (Boston), High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, London, Singapore), MIT Sloan Investment Management Conference (Cambridge), High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour (New York), Institutional Investor's Global Growth Markets Forum (London), Technical Analysis Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia (Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face (Seoul), 2nd Private Equity Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia (London), among other global forums.

The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Jakarta 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 Jakarta contains a series of presentations in the world's most important financial centers: Shanghai, China, September 7; Mexico City, Mexico, July 27; Hong Kong, August 4, and Moscow, Russia, August 10.

Mr. Perez is one of the great business networkers and motivators on the business circuit; he is available worldwide for the following speaking engagements: Present and Future of High-Frequency Trading, The Real Story behind the "Flash Crash", Networking for Financial Executives, and Business Networking for Success.