Stop-hunting: fact or venting?

"They ran my stop" is the trader's favourite explanation for losses. The truth is more mundane: obvious stops cluster at obvious levels, and price runs through them because that's what price does at liquidity.

What's your view?

• whether your broker or the market is "hunting" stops
• how you place stops to avoid the obvious clusters
• the loss you blamed on stop-hunting, honestly reassessed

The stop-loss guide explains the clustering dynamics.