Oh I actually have a car where it's the only one in Canada. I think... there used to be one in Quebec but got sold.
You almost lost me at the stop loss and gambling thing, but you had me back with the example in the end, nice one. I actually agree.
More often than not this doesn't happen though. You are stating that in a small % of incidences you will lose substantial amounts more than you would have profited if your limit hit on the upside. That's true, but most often this isnt the case. Stop losses are effective because they reduce your risk of ruin, not because for any given trade they are necessarily more profitable. Meaning, your profile over 1 million scenarios is likely hurt from stops, BUT as we can't average 1 million scenarios stop losses make sense for those times the above graph plays out. I'm not disagreeing with you, just making the point that stop losses don't necessarily increase overall profits just reduce our risk in situations like you highlight above.
Stop losses is gambling. You have placed an order to buy a stock that you have no interest in owning. It basically boils down to that. All the day traders getting in and out of trades racking up losses and fees could be done with one swing trade. The PDT is a good thing because it saves you from yourselves.
Instead of trolling with zero substance,why dont you run a backtest? Present something with some performance,risk reward, metrics. You arent here to replace Quanto