Master the "Liquidity Extraction." Learn why the market often moves against you to trigger your stop-loss before finally moving in your predicted direction.
Stop Hunting refers to the institutional action of intentionally moving the price to levels where thousands of retail stop-loss orders are known to be resting. Because stop-losses are effectively "market orders" to buy or sell, triggering them provides a massive burst of instant liquidity, which institutions need to fill their own massive orders without causing an adverse price slippage.
It's not personal. They have to move hundreds of millions of dollars. They simply follow the path of greatest liquidity, which happens to be the area where retail traders cluster their stops.
Instead of placing your stops where everyone else does, look for the "liquidity zones" and wait for the hunt to occur. Once the hunt happens and price rejects the zone, you can enter with a much tighter stop-loss, "piggybacking" on the institutional move.