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Day One
February 9, 2011
7:30 Event Registration and Coffee
8:30 Chairperson's Opening Remarks
8:45 FEATURED SESSION
Debating the Impact of High Frequency Trading on Today's Market Structure
- Assessing HFT's growth and impact on liquidity in a fragmented market
- Exploring the changing nature of liquidity provision and market making
- Explaining HFT's myths, realities, benefits, and complications/costs
9:30 PANEL DISCUSSION
Regulation of High Frequency Trading: What to Expect from the SEC
- Unraveling the compliance implications of high frequency trading
- Analyzing flash trading and naked access as they relate to competitive advantage
- Working with the government to navigate a highly volatile economic climate
10:30 Networking Break & Refreshments
11:00 PANEL DISCUSSION
Assessing the Growth of High Frequency Trading in Futures, Options, and FX
- Defining high frequency trading outside of the equities space
- Establishing how to adapt a high frequency approach to futures, options, and fx
- Exploring arbitrage opportunities for high frequency traders outside of equities
12:00 Networking Luncheon
1:00 PANEL DISCUSSION
Build or Buy? Strategies for Determining the First Step in Implementation
- Developing and implementing the architecture
- Determining system requirements and overcoming start-up barriers
- Evaluating the best proximity and hosting solutions
2:00 FEATURED SESSION
Choosing the Right Platform for High Frequency Trading
- Exploring the foundation of high-frequency trading: models, systems and capital
- Delivering a superior system: requirements, architecture, implementation
- Generating alpha: execution requirements and necessary oversight
3:30 Networking Break & Refreshments
3:00 PANEL DISCUSSION
The Drive for Zero Latency: Optimizing Existing Systems for High Frequency Trading Strategies
- Examining server set-up, operating systems and application monitoring speed
- Removing complexity to enable advanced trading platforms
- Moving black-box strategies into collocation facilities
4:00 PANEL DISCUSSION
Achieving the Need for Speed in HFT: System Architecture, Co-Location, & Algorithms in Conjunction
- Taking the next steps in achieving competitive advantage for high frequency traders
- Dissecting best approaches to co-location and working on applications
- Lasering-in on the role of algorithms in optimizing high frequency trading
5:00 BUY SIDE-SELL SIDE COCKTAIL RECEPTION
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