As a programmer at a HFT broker. I completely agree with what you have said. I was wondering if you could get into the more specifics of what one should do, to

As a programmer at a HFT broker. I completely agree with what you have said. I was wondering if you could get into the more specifics of what one should do, to take the leap from back-office to front-office. Particularly, should one, (1) study and take the Series 7 exam, (2) study and do more statistical/Matlab/Monte Carlo/quant projects on the side, (3) open a IB account, collect some real time data and write your own algo's to trade, (4) take an unpaid internship at a 2nd-tier prop shop as a trader trainee or trade your own account at a trader's arcade. Please let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions. Thanks.