Missing out, being liquidated, making money, which feeling is the worst?
When losing 10%, there is a brief pain; when gaining 10%, there is a brief joy. However, missing out is a more subtle pain—seeing others make money while you did not participate.
You might think that if you had held a position, you would definitely have earned that portion of profit.
Therefore, missing out often makes people feel like they have missed an opportunity, as if it were a kind of "loss."
But unlike holding a losing position, missing out does not mean that your abilities are lacking. It simply indicates that you did not participate in a certain opportunity, which does not imply that your skills are inadequate.
Rather than saying missing out is a failure, it might be better understood as merely missing an opportunity.
