{"content":"Why I Don’t Trust Stop-Loss Orders Anymore I used to think stop-loss orders would protect me. Every time I lost a trade, I just assumed I needed to adjust something—move the stop a bit, wait for a better signal, trust the charts more. But no matter how careful I was, my stop-loss kept getting hit. Again and again. Eventually, I stopped blaming myself and started questioning what the exchange was really doing. I noticed something strange: the price didn’t just drop—it would fall quickly, hit my stop-loss exactly, then bounce right back up. It wasn’t a one-time thing. It kept happening, almost like it was planned. That’s when I realized: these “random” liquidations weren’t random at all—they were designed. High-frequency trading bots are built to move fast through the order book—not to trade, but to trigger stop-losses. They don’t just follow market moves; they create them. And the exchanges? They profit every time a stop gets hit. I didn’t lose because I wasn’t disciplined. I lost because I was trying to play fair in a game that’s rigged against me. I wasn’t trading—I was being hunted.","images":["https://d2kdcqywr8ua22.cloudfront.net/uploadfile/article/blog/2025062025/06/04/5b7b6e2b675b42608f4d72fb19026c99.png"],"tags":[],"tradingPairs":[],"quotearticleid":0}