Agreed. I actually do believe that it's a pretty easy field to get into (I started learning freshman year of college having never coded before, and picked it up

Agreed. I actually do believe that it's a pretty easy field to get into (I started learning freshman year of college having never coded before, and picked it up well enough by graduation to be successful in HFT) -- but there's no way in hell I'd want to give the impression to the general population that this is an easy discipline and everyone should flood in.