[mruts]

Are you sure you worked at an HFT firm? Front running has always been illegal as it is basically insider trading.

Being fast is not an easy way to make money. It's an incredibly hard and difficult way to make money. I don't know what kind of HFT you worked at, but I guess you just plugged in a laptop to a GBit/s network line and plugged away making "easy" money?

Also, the first dark pool was created in the 80s, so you're a little late on that development as well.