HIFREQ TRADE 2011 overview

To see the agenda from HIFREQ TRADE 2011, click here

HIFREQ TRADE 2011 was the second annual event dedicated to practitioners and professionals involved in High Frequency Trading cycle with theme focusing on ever faster, ever smarter: next generation High Frequency Trading, which attracted over 250 delegates that networked, discussed and learned about the latest developments within the following topics:

2011 Event Summary

250+ have attended

30 High Profile Speakers

13 Sponsors & 5 Exhibitors

High ratio of Buy Side delegates

Program featured practical presentations mixed with interactive discussions 

Agenda was designed with up to date topics to ensure discussed were the latest subjects

 Event Background 

With high frequency trading (HFT) plunging into the low microseconds and all easy alpha arbitraged away, where will the day traders go next? Can they and the markets go even faster and what advantages does that offer? What are the risks of ever decreasing latency or the challenges of asynchronous operations? Can traders scale up and out geographically? How do you juggle thousands of exposures? What are the practicalities of trading emerging markets or global arbitrage? Or will they have to get smarter looking at ever more factors, asset classes and data sources like robo-news feeds to ease the way for the fundamental value trader to make the markets more predictable? With politicians and regulators on the warpath, and given the lessons of the flash crash, how can we make the world safe for both high frequency traders and slower participants and still exploit the market efficiencies that HFT offers? Finally, how is machine-to-machine (M2M) e-commerce likely to evolve with complex, real-time supply chains to provide the just-in-time risk and alpha signals to optimize distributed trading engines and ensure manageable risks?

The first annual event was held on February 24th in London's Marriott Hotel, and the event showed the crucial importance of the topic and quality of presentations that attracted close to 200 attendees.