You are totally missing the point I'm making. It's not about the direction or being stopped out. I was stopped out twice yesterday, okay? This happened a few more times before. It was almost always at the price of the stop or a tick above it. Then it would reverse on me. If it's just once or twice thing, I would say who the f*ck cares? That's all part of the business. But if you keep seeing the same shit happen again and again, you start to think differently. For the record, I AIN'T A CONSPIRACY BS'ER. (Not shouting either)
How do explain the earlier stop at 71.75 (my stop was 71.50) and many others I experienced before yesterday? This place is damn weird. Anyway, have a nice day (or night), wherever you may be. Again, this place...creepy LOL
Maybe in theory if they keep hitting to the tick you can try putting the stop out slightly further than where you originally planned? Maybe you'll just find they are a hair too tight per whatever current volatility. Just seems like horrible luck to me though.
Looks like 3000 is in play as well if it takes out yesterday's high. I may cut loss and short higher later.
Or not have a stop at all. If the one stop is causing the market to reverse, then not having that stop will allow the market to flourish. Silliness.
Look, do you not see the point I was making? The reason why I intentionally placed a RANDOM stop was to see if it would make any difference. I could understand if I placed the stop just above a key resistance and I was stopped out, but where I placed the stop was like in a no-man's land. There was no need for it to reverse. Anyway, thanks to everyone for listening to my kvetching. Now I hope you will move on and ignore my posts.
not a single person mentioned this. I took a look at the first trade in question. Do you not use measured moves ? I measure the waves in both the move up and the pullbacks. If you were trading the 5 min bars (based on your chart). So from 940est to 10;50 est u had 13, 12, and 10 point up waves, and 8, 10, and 10 down waves before the big move up. I know this is hindsight BS, but I'm always measuring waves when we have a trend day. they are useful. for your first trade in question, you placed a stop within the range of the average wave and it just so happen to get hit. Nothing strange here, just a bad "random" stop. 2nd trade, it was during the rebalancing time which is completely random.
That 81.25 was in the line of fire of an algo target, schizo. It was random to you, but it had a bullseye just a tick or two above it. 82.50 was the full target ... end of day it was just front run by a point and confounded by the MOC hustle. But eyes were on that figure before you posted your stop.