the spread is crazy. its bot heaven these days. im kicking myself for not majoring in CS
Yo me too. Math skills are the most essential part of it (additional to what you usualy learn in CS). Its realy hard but I've put myself through 3 courses at coursera.org and started on edx.org... But I won't deploy one of these "high frequency" bots yet. Everything is possible if you can glue yourself to the screen, week for week. Still limited to python though. There are nice open sources to learn from.
I am not going to use a bot, damned Gox is clogged enough already, bots activities only slow it down even more, I think Gox should restrict the number of reuqests that can be made from a particular IP.
Edit: Oh, they won't, they love active bots coz more minutetradings means more fees for them, damn them!