>> Join Irene at the !st Big Data Finance Workshop on May 3, 2013, in NYC.  Register here today: http://www.BigDataFinanceConference.com/attend

>> Irene Aldridge will be conducting corporate book signing events for her new book, “High-Frequency Trading: A Practical Guide to Algorithmic Strategies and Trading Systems,” (Wiley), the second edition of which is forthcoming in the Spring of 2013, now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. To organize Aldridge's presentation and a book signing event with your clients, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  Past book-signing clients of Aldridge have included exchanges, inter-dealer brokers, and other financial services practitioners.  Aldridge has received rave reviews for her presentations.

>> Irene Aldridge will be teaching several hands-on training boot-camps on the latest research and practice in algorithmic order routing in the United States and around the world in 2013 via HFTTraining.com.  She also offers executive seminars for individual companies (10 person minimum).  Please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  today to sign up!

Irene Aldridge is an investment consultant, portfolio manager and a recognized expert on the subjects of quantitative investing and high-frequency trading (HFT), and a seasoned educator. Aldridge is the author of “High-Frequency Trading: A Practical Guide to Algorithmic Strategies and Trading Systems,” (Wiley), the second edition of which is forthcoming in the Spring of 2013, now available on Amazon.com and wherever books are sold.

Aldridge is currently a Managing Partner and Quantitative Portfolio Manager at ABLE Alpha Trading, LTD, as well as Industry Assistant Professor, Dept. of Finance and Risk Engineering, New York University (NYU).  At NYU, Aldridge specializes in cutting edge HFT research and teaches courses on HFT and algorithmic execution.  ABLE Alpha is an investment consulting firm and a proprietary trading vehicle specializing in quantitative and high-frequency trading strategies, providing a number of industry leaders with "white-labeled" strategies, indicators, consulting, ideas and various implementation strategies. At ABLE Alpha, Aldridge designs, implements and deploys proprietary trading strategies. As part of her duties, Aldridge also consults broker-dealers, large hedge funds, large consulting firms and government entities on high-frequency research and optimal high-frequency strategy design, implementation of trading systems, and risk management of both high- and low-frequency operations.

Prior to ABLE Alpha, Aldridge worked for various institutions on Wall Street and in Toronto, including Goldman Sachs and CIBC. She has taught graduate quantitative finance courses at several U.S. universities, and, for industry executives, various courses on high-frequency trading via HFTTraining.com.  Over the years, Aldridge has been called to contribute to numerous government regulatory panels, including the U.K. Government Foresight Committee for Future of Computer Trading and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Subcommittee on High-Frequency Trading.

Aldridge holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MS in financial engineering from Columbia University, and a BE in electrical engineering from the Cooper Union in New York. Aldridge is a frequent speaker at top industry events and a contributor to academic, practitioner and mainstream media publications, including the Journal of Trading, Futures Magazine, Reuters HedgeWorld, Advanced Trading, FXWeek, FINalternatives, Dealing with Technology, Huffington Post and Hamptons.com.

Aldridge often appears on major television networks, including BBC, CNBC, FOX Business, CBC, BNN, German ZDF, among others, and has been invited to discuss the implications of technology in finance on National Public Radio (NPR) and Bloomberg Radio. In addition, Aldridge has been quoted by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Financial Times, Thomson/Reuters, Bloomberg LP, Forbes and other major business news outlets.

Aldridge strongly believes in giving back to the community, and Aldridge presently serves as Treasurer at Carnegie Hill Neighbors, a neighborhood improvement not-for-profit organization.

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