Institutional Stop Hunting

Retail traders are vulnerable to natural price movement rather than coordinated institutional manipulation. The article rejects the idea that banks and institutions systematically hunt retail stop losses as overstated. Stop losses are pres…

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Retail traders are vulnerable to natural price movement rather than coordinated institutional manipulation. The article rejects the idea that banks and institutions systematically hunt retail stop losses as overstated. Stop losses are presented as getting hit mainly because of retail trader behavior patterns rather than institutional targeting. Stop losses trigger at common technical levels because large price movements naturally occur there, not because institutions deliberately hunted them.