Every Stop-Loss I Set Was Just a Target to Them
I didn’t start trading crypto for the thrill—I came in believing precision, logic, and discipline could carve out something real. I tracked every tick, backtested strategies, refined my entries until they were near surgical. For a while, it looked like progress. Then I watched flawless setups unravel—again and again—always a heartbeat before profit. The more perfect I played it, the more violently the outcome snapped back. That’s when I realized: I wasn’t in a market. I was inside a machine—and the machine already knew my next move.
Exchanges aren’t passive platforms. They are active predators. They see your liquidation levels. They see where you’ll break. And when enough traders lean too far in one direction, the floor collapses just enough to wipe them out—then recovers as if nothing happened. It’s not chaos. It’s calibration. You think you’re refining your edge, but they’ve already calculated how to turn it into their liquidity.
I used to think I was improving. Now I know I was being modeled. Every trade I placed, every stop I set—it all fed the engine. A system designed not to reward skill, but to extract precision losses.
I didn’t lose because I was wrong. I lost because the exchange made sure I would.