Why Missing Trades Feels Like Physical Pain

FOMO is not weakness. The anterior cingulate cortex (the same region that processes physical pain) fires in response to perceived social or financial exclusion.

This episode traces the neuroscience: why missing a winning trade activates the same circuit as a broken bone, why the urge to chase intensifies the further the move runs, and the role of dopamine prediction error in keeping you locked in. Plain language. Specific mechanisms. The somatic mechanism behind FOMO, and why telling yourself ‘there’s always another trade’ doesn’t reach it.