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Green-Candle Pull

The visceral attraction to a vertical real-time price move. Dopamine neurons fire to the prediction of a reward (Schultz, 1997), not the reward itself — the green candle triggers an anticipatory signal identical to a slot machine paying out unexpectedly. Activates before any rational analysis can occur.

See also
Psychology Reward Prediction Error Wolfram Schultz's dopamine mechanic (1997): midbrain dopamine neurons fire most strongly to unpredicted rewards. A vertical green candle triggers the same anticipatory signal as a slot machine paying out — the dopamine fires before rational analysis can engage. → Psychology Speed Trap The compressed decision window in memecoin trading that disables System 2 deliberation. Pump.fun bonding curves can graduate in minutes. Platforms compete on execution speed as a marketing feature. The faster the rail, the less deliberative capacity the trader gets before the buy fires. → Psychology FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) Apprehension that others are having rewarding experiences from which one is absent (Przybylski et al., 2013). In memecoins, amplified by the asymmetric salience of winner posts versus loser silence. The visible distribution of outcomes is severely skewed toward winners even when the actual distribution is overwhelmingly losses. →
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