The biggest stop hunt caught

I have not posted anything for a while so I think it is time to change that. I suggest a competition on the largest stop hunt caught by traders.

My entry would be for Vantage FX. See the chart attached from my live account with them – the stop hunt down was 98 pips and the corresponding spread at that very moment was 102 pips.

Interestingly enough it was not present on their demo account, see the second chart attached – the same candle was 0 pips from the high to the low.

I suggest using 1 min chart as these things are typically happening very fast.

Just in case if you are not aware, if you want to catch that you should use IND_Monitoring-Spread or similar indicator, I attached it below. I changed the colors so that the highest spread numbers are in red, the default indicator highlights the colors differently.

A typical indicator showing the spread in the corner of your chart won’t catch any of that as those are instantaneous spikes lasting milliseconds. But they will still stop your trades if the stop is anywhere within their reach, be assured.

So, 94 pips stop hunt on GBPNZD with 102 pips spread, is a competitor No 1. Almost the same crazy numbers but a bit smaller were on EURNZD that day so I am only coming up with one entry.

Higher numbers, anybody?

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Usually at 00:00 during roll over, you get lots of unusual "dirty" ticks. If these trigger a loss, raise a complaint and most legit brokers usually compensate you for your loss. Some broker like IC Market, suspend the MT4 for a few minutes during roll over to prevent this issue happening.

In demo account, the ticks are usually filtered. That is why never trust demo account if you are using tick scalper. The filter is to reduce the burden on the demo servers.

So I won't call this a broker stop hunt.

Damn boy its rollover time what are you talking about? Some HQ brokers post on their page about rollovers that's highly advised to not trade during rollover times.
It's well known fact that servers are basically reset during rollover and you can get very high spreads. Keep it in mind when you set stop loss.

I did not say it was a broker only stop hunt. It might be their feed provider or both, who cares, we never know the truth on our side of the fence. The size of it was really impressive, that's all. Unless you are recording it you will never see it.

I compared it with a couple of other feeds - nothing was even remotely close.

You'll get a lot of that with Vantage.

This is the chart for the knowledge I learn so that I can be successful like other traders.

That's why I always tell newbies check license (it should be FCA) before you start trading. FCA brokers never stop hunt of front run client orders.

More or less the same story with every broker