Jun. 14 at 1:38 PM
Your stop loss is not a secret. It sits where every other retail stop sits: equal highs and lows, prior day high and low, the overnight Globex edges, round numbers. Those are not support and resistance. They are liquidity pools, and big size needs your stops to get filled. So they push price into the cluster, trigger a few thousand stops, absorb that flush, and reverse. Every failed breakout you ever cursed at was this. Wyckoff named it a hundred years ago: springs and upthrusts. The tell never changes. Price sweeps the level, wicks through, then snaps back inside the range. The move that took the stops fails to hold. That failure is your entry. Wait for the reclaim back inside the prior structure, stop beyond the sweep wick, target the pool on the other side, because that is where price is headed next. Do not fight the hunt. Do not front-run the level. Let them sweep it, let it fail, ride the reversal. The trap is the setup.
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