Disliked{quote} What you describe sounds totally familiar to me, but you have to recognise the market will gravitate towards peoples stops for liquidity so the real players can build bigger positions. How many times have you seen the market make a big move only to whipsaw back to the origin of that move just to continue its original direction.. this is totally deliberate. It's not personal (if it feels that way, it's because traders tend to be looking at the same things, and put stops and similar places), it's how this market works and it's savage. Set...Ignored
It's just that lately I've been misreading patterns or that the market comes back for yet another stop hunt. Regardless, it's extremely strange how the random sized stop losses of mine always end up being the literal exact peak of the move. I believe everything happens for a reason and for me to get stopped by 1 pip on almost every trade the last month using completely random stop sizes from my entry is just bizarre... It could still be coincidence, but if this happens anymore then I believe something suspicious is going on.
It's not like I use the same size stop, there was a trade I took with a 40 pip hard stop (20 pip mental stop) at the beginning of the month as I've seen many members do this and try to exit with a smaller loss if the mental stop is exceeded, but I got stopped by 1 pip before it actually reversed. I've used a stop as small as 5 pips and STILL get stopped by 1 pip only before a 60-70 pip reversal. I really want to believe it's just coincidence and that there's actually a consistent flaw that all my random sized stops somehow had in common that I just missed rather than it being specifically hunted.
I'll be studying this entire month of trades to see if there's a common denominator as to what made them all lose by a pip regardless of stop size and see if I can find anything
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15:00 ST. Long now 1.1809 ...15:49 ST. Impulse down to 1.1791. I'm very...