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FOMO
Trading
Fear of missing out — buying late into a pump because everyone else already did.
Definition
FOMO is the reason most traders buy the top. You see a chart going vertical, your timeline is full of rocket emojis, and the rational part of your brain goes quiet. You click buy before you've looked at the contract, the liquidity, or the market cap.
In memecoins, FOMO is the fuel that dumps rely on. By the time a token is trending, insiders and early buyers already have exit liquidity lined up — and that liquidity is you.
Examples
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FOMO'd in at the top, down 60% the next morning.
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Timeline is full of shills for this one — pure FOMO trap.
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Waiting out the FOMO pump, I'll look again when the dust settles.
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