I can assure you that there are only a handful of people on ET who are successfully doing HFT and 10 at most who are profitably automated. The rest are either d

I can assure you that there are only a handful of people on ET who are successfully doing HFT and 10 at most who are profitably automated. The rest are either discretionary traders, retail pikers, trolls, or troll aliases. There's definitely no congregation, nor is there really anything of substance regarding automation or strategy trading, short of a few older threads.