Jesse Forster

With intensifying demands on institutional traders, maintaining mental and physical well-being has never been more critical. This exclusive buy-side-only, off-the-record panel brings together experts who will share personal strategies, proven approaches, and emerging best practices for sustainable trading performance. Leave this session with:

• Actionable tools to support resilience and peak performance in one of the most demanding professions
• Proven strategies to help you and your colleagues avoid burnout
• The best techniques to manage stress effectively

Commissioner Peirce will give a timely update from the US Securities and Exchange Commission on the sweeping shifts underway in US equities market structure. As new leadership sets the tone and proposals on tokenization, transparency (Rules 605/606), and market fragmentation loom large, the SEC’s evolving stance will directly impact trading desks and market participants. Attendees will gain clarity on:

• Regulatory priorities, including the agency’s views on dark pools
• Retail trading volume; and
• The rise of 24-hour venues

As market speed and macro sensitivity increase, real-time adaptability has become the gold standard for trading algorithms. This panel explores how firms are approaching the build vs. buy decision when it comes to designing macro-aware, event-responsive algos. Panelists will share how they unpack the critical factors that determine whether outsourcing or insourcing delivers the sharper edge: 

• Best practices to evaluate partner capabilities
• Benchmarking performance and assessing success
• Assess internal readiness to develop proprietary models, from governance and infrastructure to data integration and decision latency; and
• Select criteria that trigger removing one provider in favor of another