Developing Profitable High-Frequency Trading Systems at High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2010

May 14, 2010 - PRLog -- Professor Ben Vliet, Lecturer at the Illinois Institute of Technology, will keynote GoldenNetworking.net's High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2010, "Innovating and Profiting from High-Frequency Trading in 2010 and Beyond" (http://www.HFTLeadersForum.com), May 27th, 2010, Flatotel Hotel, New York City, on "Developing Profitable High-Frequency Trading and Investment Systems".

Professor Van Vliet is a Lecturer at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Stuart School of Business (IIT), where he also serves as the Associate Director of the M.S. Finance program. At IIT he teaches courses in quantitative finance, C++ and .NET programming, and automated trading system design and development. Professor Van Vliet consults extensively in the financial markets industry, including Calamos Investment Management, Jump Trading, Deutsche Bank and the United States Department of Labor, primarily on topics related to the mathematics, technology and management of trading systems. He is currently teaching a regular course in business mathematics at the University of Chicago's Graham School of General Studies and previously taught review courses for Quantitative Methods portions of Chartered Financial Analysts level one examination for Becker Conviser/Stalla.

The process of building a high-performance trading system includes not only the development, research, testing, implementation, and management of the investment systems, but also the delineation of responsibilities, all deliberately aimed at achieving performance levels consistent with or above the specifications of seed capital providers and investors. Professor Ban Vliet will walk through a proven methodology that incorporates continuous improvement to the systems of trade selection, execution, risk management, and all other trading/investment system processes, through the performance of statistical process control on risk attributes. Topics that will be covered include algorithmic trading for exploitation of market micro structure, trade-offs between third-party and custom built trading systems and required backtesting for high-frequency trading algorithms.

High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2010 is produced by GoldenNetworking.net (http://www.goldennetworking.net), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs, investors and diplomats, founded by former McKinsey consultant and Columbia Business School MBA Edgar Perez. Upcoming Leaders Forums and Business Networking receptions include:

•   High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour, (http://www.HFTHappyHour.com), June 8th, New York City

•   Real Estate Leaders Forum 2010, "Successfully Investing in Distressed Real Estate Assets" (http://www.RealEstateLeadersForum.com), June 17th, New York City

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