'Precision isn't given. It's earned. ' @ManUtd
Someone who not only survives, but continues compounding at a high level deep into their trading career becomes extraordinarily rare.
Just like LeBron James/
The convexity comes from the contrast.
A young trader making money is expected.
An older trader still operating with precision, aggression, adaptability, and timing edge against younger participants becomes statistically abnormal.
Because by then:
the market has usually broken people psychologically,
responsibilities compress risk appetite,
and most participants transition from offense to preservation.
But if someone can still:
extract asymmetry,
adapt to new market structure,
maintain execution speed,
and continue producing high-level returns,
then they have effectively broken the expected decay curve of speculation itself.
That creates a kind of outlier status.
Because they converted experience into structural edge instead of rigidity.
The average trader ages into caution.
The rare trader ages into precision.