Fomo

Fear, greed, and FOMO aren’t vague personality flaws that only affect undisciplined traders, they’re three emotional states that show up in almost every account at some point, and each one pushes toward a specific, recognisable mistake, not a vague one. Fear Fear shows up in two opposite-looking ways that come from the same place. It stops a trader taking a valid setup because the last two trades lost and the chart in front of them now feels untrustworthy, even though nothing about the setup itself has changed. And it closes a winning trade early, well before the planned target, because being up feels fragile and locking in something small feels safer than risking it turning into nothing. Both are the same instinct: treat the current position as more dangerous than the plan says it is, and act to reduce that danger right now instead of at the level the plan already chose. ...