Markets Media Live is pleased to announce its Canadian Trading & Investing Summit 2010 on Thursday April 15, 2010. This forum of thought leaders will tackle the complex issues surrounding Canada's changing trading and investing landscape. Industry experts will debate core issues such as the importance of trading versus traditional investment philosophy; the rise of high frequency trading and its impact on the market structure; institutional adoption and the use of derivatives and much more...

The summit will bring together leading institutions, hedge funds, exchanges, institutional trading platforms, broker-dealers, service providers, regulatory authorities, fund of fund managers and consulting firms in an unprecedented event aimed at highlighting today's most pressing topics for the Canadian markets. This event is complimentary for Markets Media Members and for qualified market participants.   

FOR DEBATE:

• The Marketplace: Changing Landscape, Changing Market Structure -Consolidation, Competition, and Market Fragmentation

• How have institutions adapted to rapid changes in market structure and regulation?

• Quant Versus Fundamental Strategies

• Trading Versus Investment Philosophy

• What has been the impact of high frequency trading and proprietary trading on traditional trading and investment models?

• Trading Tech: Survival of the Fastest? Will speed alone define the winners and losers of tomorrow? Which firms are meeting the need for fewer highly customized algos?

• Alpha Generation: Which trading strategies can add to alpha?

• Institutional Derivatives Trading and Investing Strategies

• The Debate On Over The Counter Versus On Exchange Rages

Also featuring special sessions...

• Transaction Cost Analysis and Portfolio Construction

• Next Generation Algos

• High-Frequency Trading and Dark Pools

• Commission Sharing Agreements

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