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The fear of missed trading opportunities

Posted on June 26, 2008

Popular blogger (and trader psychologist) Brett Steenbarger of the Trader Feed blog explains how the fear of missing can impact the investment performance of individual investors: A reader recently asked me about a problem he was having with the fear of missing. It appears that he front-runs his setups, getting into trades before he gets proper signals. This fear of missing opportunity has hurt his performance, as it has placed his capital at risk during periods of low opportunity. At the very least, the fear of missing signals can result in poor execution. Instead of buying on pullbacks o...

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