How to Make Money in the High Frequency Trading Industry

Wall Street firms like Citadel are able to pay for order flow and basically get your trades from Robinhood and get them before they hit any lit market. The spots at the front of the room will pay the most, $250,000 a day or something ridiculous like that. They're even buying military grade communications equipment and using microwave towers to relay trade signals from Chicago to New York because it's faster than high speed internet or even ethernet.