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3am. Red portfolio. Liquidated. One tab open. I learned everything that night after my $5,400 lesson in how the market systematically harvests liquidity. You see, market makers are not hunting you personally; they are hunting the massive pools of liquidity created by retail traders who all learned the same "textbook" technical analysis. When you place a stop loss exactly at the wick low of a support level on $BTC or right below a clean round number, you are literally giving the algorithm a target. Market makers need volume to fill their large orders, and the easiest place to find that volume is where thousands of retail traders have grouped their stops. It is pure market structure: sellers are forced to sell at their...
3am. Red portfolio. Liquidated. One tab open. I learned everything that night after my $5,400 lesson in how the market systematically harvests liquidity. You see, market makers are not hunting you personally; they are hunting the massive pools of liquidity created by retail traders who all learned the same "textbook" technical analysis. When you place a stop loss exactly at the wick low of a support level on $BTC or right below a clean round number, you are literally giving the algorithm a target. Market makers need volume to fill their large orders, and the easiest place to find that volume is where thousands of retail traders have grouped their stops. It is pure market structure: sellers are forced to sell at their...