Finance glossary
FOMO
Definition
Fear of missing out, driving impulsive investment decisions.
FOMO is the anxiety of being left out of gains others are making, pushing investors to chase rising assets without proper analysis. It fuels speculative manias, from meme stocks to crypto, and often leads to buying near the top, just before reversals.
In a sentence
FOMO pushed him to chase the soaring meme stock right before it crashed.
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