Why I No Longer Trust Crypto Stop-Loss Strategies
I used to think stop-loss orders were my safety net. After every loss, I told myself I just needed to tweak the strategy—move the line, set the alert, trust the chart. But no matter how carefully I placed them, those lines kept getting hit. Again. And again. Until I stopped asking “what’s wrong with me” and started asking what the exchange was really doing.
It didn’t take long to see it. Price wouldn’t just dip—it would dive straight to my stop, tag it perfectly, then bounce. Not once. Constantly. The pattern was too precise to be coincidence. I realized those so-called “liquidations” weren’t random. They were engineered.
Behind the scenes, high-frequency bots sweep through the order book with surgical speed, designed not to trade—but to trigger. They don’t react to volatility; they manufacture it. And the exchange? It benefits every time they do.
I didn’t lose because I lacked discipline. I lost because I was trying to outmaneuver a system built to hunt me down. I wasn’t trading—I was being targeted.
