Long Degen

It's a cope analogy. A table has 10 seats - in small caps there are likely 100's of thousands of seats and 95% of them are clueless and crying on twitta and not "billionaire elite pros." In the long-run, trading has more randomness. The probability distribution in poker is mathematically known (you can calculate exact odds on every hand). The randomness in poker is contained in a closed system w/fixed rules. Macro events, algos, news flow, themes, pumps, people violating SEC laws, and liquidity conditions introduce randomness that has no poker equivalent. You can never know your edge in trading like you can with poker because other players adapt - even if your trade setup worked 100 times in trading, the 101st exists in a fundamentally different environment. Traders are always operating with a degree of uncertainty about whether their edge is real or just fooled from a favorable sample over X time. Poker is harder than trading because the pool is self-selecting and significantly more competitive/a lot smaller, but the randomness in trading is more dangerous because it's harder to measure and easier to mistake for edge.