Yes. I know of a person trading profitably with about $200k capital. The company I work for started off this way as well, and it's considerably larger than $200k. I also know of a person who went this route and had trading profits but his trading profits didn't cover expenses (he lost something in the neighborhood of $50-100k).
You'll typically need to buy a server and colocate it at your broker's datacenter.
Unless you are very rich, you probably can't afford to do latency arbitrage, which is only a subset of high frequency. The capital expenses (custom routers and the like) are probably too high for individuals.
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Yes. I know of a person trading profitably with about $200k capital. The company I work for started off this way as well, and it's considerably larger than $200k. I also know of a person who went this route and had trading profits but his trading profits didn't cover expenses (he lost something in the neighborhood of $50-100k).
You'll typically need to buy a server and colocate it at your broker's datacenter.
Brokers to talk to:
http://www.limebrokerage.com/offerings/by_role_highfrequency... (This is the same Lime as LimeWire.)
http://www.gndt.com/
http://www.interactivebrokers.com/ibg/main.php
Unless you are very rich, you probably can't afford to do latency arbitrage, which is only a subset of high frequency. The capital expenses (custom routers and the like) are probably too high for individuals.
Thanks very much for the links!
Also, if you are interested in learning HFT without risking your own capital, my company is hiring. Instructions on how to apply are here (in encrypted form):
http://meshcapital.com/application.tar.gz