On: How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency trading

[mej10]

Do you think you got lucky or that your skill as a trader made you this money? Or rather, which of these do you think mattered most?

[jspaulding → mej10]

1) Being connected to friends who taught me a scalping style of day trading 2) Being really good at designing algorithms. 3) I only wish I could have started automated trading back in 2001