What is fomo?
Entering because the move is already happening and you can’t stand to miss it.
Entering because the move is already happening and you can’t stand to miss it.
FOMO, explained
Fear of missing out arrives after the move, which is precisely what makes it expensive. You buy near the end of the leg, far from any sensible stop, so the risk per share is at its widest exactly when your conviction is at its thinnest.
A worked example
A name is up 9% by 11:00. You enter at the high, and the nearest honest stop sits 7% below — about three times your normal risk per share.
Where fomo shows up in a journal
A trading journal is where this stops being a definition and becomes your own number. sizeforzero computes it from the trades you import or log, alongside the rest of your analytics vocabulary, and every figure in the app carries an (i) that explains it in the same plain English you just read.