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Re:How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency... by vellum on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @01:09PM (#4749596)
1.)Getting a server close to the exchange

2.)Finding a good predictor. Predicting up or down is easy on paper. Finding a predictor that a.)beats the spread, b.)factors in lag time to execution, and c.)factors in commission, is hard.

3.)Market regime changes. What works a few months ago isn't guaranteed to work now.

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