Oceans are like very deep markets - lots of participants but harder to outcompete the others. SPY is like the pacific - interacting with many other markets, constant yet chaotic.

Mountains are like smaller caps - there is a lot more alpha, higher volatility but opportunity size is only a fraction.

Would be cool to make a procedural rendering of the financial markets as a landscape/globe map. "Got a cold front blowing across the tech sector today"

that's hardly a fair comparison. land is separated by waters that cannot be traversed. Oceans are not separated by land so seeing a particular fish in different oceans does not seem too odd.

Aren't rats the equivalent of that?