Why Missing Trades Feels Like Physical Pain

FOMO is not weakness. The anterior cingulate cortex, a region implicated in both physical and social pain, has been shown to activate in response to perceived social exclusion.

This episode traces the neuroscience: why missing a winning trade can register in some of the same circuitry as physical pain, 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.