I was just thinking how some years ago on this site, debates raged about whether one, most likely a retail trader, could make money with automated trading. It seemed that most believed it couldn't be done, most likely because they didn't know how, or they bought a system that didn't work, or they tried to build one themselves and couldn't make it work, or that HFT was the only form of automated trading that could work..
Now I look and we have evolved with battle of the bots, webinars and posts on R, quantitative trading, statistics, people building their own trading platforms, etc. So is the debate over? Does everybody now believe it can be done irregardless of whether or not they can do it themselves?