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DislikedBuy at the bottom where the 'high risk stop loss' line is, it's often on a whole, half or quarter number, which is normally under a low from where an upmove went on and created a new high in relation to the price action directly to the left of it.Ignored
DislikedThere are so many things wrong here that I wont even be able to touch on each but also this whole thread is subjective in nature that why even bother? You never ever really going to know for sure trading OTC FX spot what is 'manipulated' and what isn't by just looking at a chart. Spend some more time looking into order flow and market micro structure basics and then this will make much more sense instead of just trying to assume with some random drawing of a line graph what hypothetically happens in a market containing millions of different participants...Ignored
QuoteDislikedSpend some more time looking into order flow and market micro structure basics
DislikedDemo and others thanks for your input, not long ago I made quite some money on forex, the reason being I came across someone who told me to think "think where id put my stops when trading and wait. Only trade once those stops had been targeted" and it worked.Ignored
DislikedI see this as orders being set off on purpose to wrong foot traders. {image}Ignored
Disliked{quote} you cannot perceive double tops/bottoms to be mandatory on horizontal lines... I mean you could, but on more volatile assets they rarely are. And trading those double tops/bottoms as soon as you see price touching them is fundamentally wrong. Correct me if i'm wrong - every time an asset "jumps out" of what we think is a trading range, and comes back afterwards - is a potential market manipulation? Or some? Or none? Who can tell...? - get the sarcasm? Try to find as many flat ranges in a given time frame as possible - and compare how many...Ignored
DislikedNice "chart examples" but we all know market is a live beast adapting to us, rather us adapting to it but I digress. So...it would be nice if market simply jumped out of the range, and not whipsaw us so many times right? Try to imagine how would a market trading like that look like? Draw some charts. To make the story short, then there would be no markets. It would mean that after a price breach of the channel, we will simply see a 100% trend in that direction. Where's the challenge there? ....Ignored
Disliked{image} Id like to discuss market manipulation behaviours that you have learned and noticed on charts?Ignored
DislikedBuy at the bottom where the 'high risk stop loss' line is, it's often on a whole, half or quarter number, which is normally under a low from where an upmove went on and created a new high in relation to the price action directly to the left of it.Ignored
Disliked{quote} To me the market is definitely manipulation with genuine trend movements too, the problem is knowing when the trend is legit; to when it is being manipulated to farce, whoever can supply this answer gets my eternal gratitude lol.Ignored