What Does This Mean?
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Mentally treating an on-paper, unrealized gain as already-spendable real money, making financial plans or feeling genuine relief based on a number that could fully evaporate before ever being cashed out.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"I had already mentally planned a vacation around gains that were gone by the time I actually tried to sell."
LORE & ORIGIN
Identified across trading-psychology writing and crypto culture specifically around 2021-2022 during periods of rapid unrealized appreciation, naming the specific cognitive slip between portfolio value and actual realized wealth.
FIRST SEEN
2021
PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)
2022-2026 (Permanent Trading Vocabulary)
CURRENT STATUS
Mainstream Slang
AURA IMPACT ⓘ
+15 AURA
TREND STATUS
→ STEADY
EDITORIAL ESTIMATE
CULTURE CATEGORY
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MENTIONS OVER TIME
DOCUMENTED SINCE
2021
NOW
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