The Biggest SCAM In Trading Industry (A Deep Dive into Market Manipulation)
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- Опубликовано: 24 ноя 2023
- Have you ever wondered who really moves the markets and controls the price action? In this video, I'm going to pull back the curtain and expose one of the biggest scams in the trading industry - market manipulation by the "smart money."
We've all seen the textbook chart patterns retail traders look for - head and shoulders tops, double bottoms, descending triangles. But what if I told you these patterns are intentionally forged to trick you?
I'll break down some concrete examples from stocks, futures, and crypto so you can see this manipulation in action.
We'll look at telltale signs on charts to spot when the smart money are moving in.
Most importantly, I'll reveal strategies you can use to protect your account and even profit from the market manipulation.
It's time we flipped the script on these so-called "smart money" players.
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Big banks, institutions, hedge funds dont care about retail we are 7% of the overall market. They are trading against each other our job is to jump onto their big moves and grab a few points. I trade two maybe three times a week on the back of those moves and its made me enough money to give in my job and work from home. Chart patterns stopped working 7-8 years ago now
So you just look at the level 2 and see where nsdq are buying and selling?
Good comment bro
@Paid2TradeFX i'm new so any advice would be great
But if it's the most price-insensitive part of the market, it could be lucrative to give attention to retail order flow.
Not because they're large notional amounts, but because it adds a high margin component to your business...
Trading is a scam!! Your strategies most likely work when you are not in the market. As soon as you hit a buy or sell button, your pattern or strategie stops being what it is supposed to be.
I just love these types of videos. Beating market manipulation (the Composite Man) by understanding it and not fighting it, makes Forex trading not gambling, but a skill. Combine it with risk management and trading psychology and you have an enormous profitable career ahead. This channel taught me so much. Fantastic job, Marius!
Appreciate it! 👍
Where to study the composite man trading game?
money mangament as well Most part of to learing Forex's inducement and liqudity
Big players have money, power and AI algoritms to draw patterns into their favor. So adapt or blow your account. Simple.
once a person can see "market manipulation" as a true power of 3 accumulation, Activation, supply after this Activation we always see their move ...and it big right it's bcuz they activated all th power they need to move the market ....isay this to say we wanan remove as much fear from our trading as possible...even our vocabulary..words have power....one of the reasons why religions books teach dnt be so haste to speak .....
Most breakouts fail. Your target should be retails entry. Either trade in the direction of where the liquidity is or trade after the liquidity has been taken. You are trading against an evolving A.I. algorithm that is constantly looking for liquidity and creating patterns to entice retail to enter trades at the wrong time.
Don't give it away keep it to yourself
@@doomslayerforever2858 What's the point of you even watching and learning from these youtube videos? Stay and keep your knowledge to yourself in your basement.
@@biguce8570 bro he is noobie I'm pretty sure ..
It's real that they create retail patterns ,give breakout then go against that.....
"or trade after the liquidity has been taken" what would indicate this? Extended periods of being range-bound and then possible directional volatility (with a possible fake out)?
depends on the time frame you are operating on the algo is constantly seeking liquidity that's what it is designed to do. A sweep on the 5 minute isn't the same as a sweep on the 4 hour.
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Agree with you here. Learned charts and all kinds of stuff, to only get wiped out twice. Haven’t day traded since…
You've opened my eyes and in return have improved my game. Thankyou
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He posts this on every fuckin channel lol
Technical analysis doesn't work like it should. The algorithm and high frequency trading system is multi million dollar program designed to for them to win. It's designed also to fuck with your emotions. Purposely dropping the price to get you to sell. Payment for order flow is a tool they use to front run trades and already know that the order is placed as soon as you placed it. The options chain is another way they take advantage of premium paid by the retailer.
yup exactly,
Every mind is innovative.firstly look for the loop holes and you will eventually find your way...here is mine: "don't try and catch the whole aggressive move from where it starts,wait for a full reversal pattern to play as if you're too late to get in, from there you wait for the price to start going the opposite direction,that's where you now look for you're BoS then entry" it's called scaling in 🔥😣 it's beautiful when you can do this... I smile week in week out because of set ups that I approached like that 👌✔️
It's best to remember that market price action and trends create the patterns, not the other way around. Thinking the pattern will drive the market is a classic mistake and leads to people trading bullish patterns when the trend is bearish and bearish patterns when the trend is bullish. Understanding proper price action and trends is a must before responding to any trademark patterns.
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The number of times my stop loss has been hunted! I thought that the broker was after me, i got so paranoid. I was so stupid, like they cared about me and my tin pot? 😂.
It just seems like the market has eyes & a brain. I go long, it goes short. I go short, it goes long. Support/resistance holds UNTIL I enter, then it breaks. It breaks first, I enter, it reverses. I can't win.
What if it turned out to be highly profitable to target frequent, small gains rather than home runs?
What if it were profitable to shake a few bills out of thousands of those tin cans, occasionally dropping a few coins back in (instead of always trying to break into the vaults of the large players)?
Luv your channel. I come here most of the time for your high quality educational content thats hard to match. As for manipulations , I dont go all in with my full risk anymore . I usually risk like 1% of capital. But now , I only go int with 30% risk now in 50/50 situation. Ill do 50% risk max on a high confluence situations. That way I leave myselt 1 or 2 chances to recover or profit , knowing that it doesnt matter how perfect your setup is , you can still be wrong no matter what. Forex is not always black and white, your trading can still be wrong, even if technicals and fundamentals on point
always happy when you upload!
Yay, thank you!👍
I always like before watching ! There always lots of value in your content , thank you so much !!
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Good Information. Any chart pattern/technique only works as long as its not common knowledge. Once it reaches that point, u can make more trading against that "knowledge. "
Awesome video, I'm already familiar with these concepts. But you revealed a whole lot more. Thanks💯
Glad it was helpful!👍
Great video. So much informative. It's confirm repeated formulas not work repeatedly because of so many people doing it
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Thank you for such an insightful content. See you at the top.
I really love you for sharing your valuable findings with us traders!!!❤
My pleasure!!👍
This is so true, I don't day trade, day trading is stupid, I just look for big opportunities.
Another great video, i am relearning from you.Did you make any video explaining footprint charts? Kindly make a video on it.
Great content!! Much appreciated🎉
fakeout ... thats a great word. thank you. that explains alot. good work
love your videos, TSM!
Thank you so much!
100% true. Thailand SET is exactly like this. I stop using all pattern all together. Just use pure price graph. I never use stop loss.
this reminds me of how when the news tells you to fear something, you should consider the opposite. Like if the tv sells you anything, its likely best not to buy it. So in markets expecting it to go where you don't want to could help predict those moments. I think its always best to just wait and see. let those happen and not panic to get in
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Waiting always for your video 😊
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Thank you so much... Have been observing this long time ago...
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This is true....heard it from a market maker ..said they dont even look at head and shoulders patterns
very good job, many thanks & appreciate for your great videos
yep i noticed that too where it seems things drop oddly or raise oddly, so i keep looking for bottoms or tops that are consent
Yes yes, I've said this for a while, but traders in chat rooms and such deny it. For my perspective, *the most abused* pattern is the bull flag or pennant. After a brief consolidation, the pattern should break upward again -- but really, *really* often this is *Exactly* where a flush likes to occur. Then shorts from everywhere hop on and the trend reverses.
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It doesn’t matter at all. Just set a tight margin of error and hold on to your winners before swaps. My best positions are me setting ridiculous limit orders at juicy discount/premium and watching them get triggered in a manner of a sweep. The limit orders are truly textbook. You either get viciously disrespected or make ridiculous RR
That's a great idea. Set ridiculous limit orders. If it triggers, you're in at a great price. If it doesn't trigger, you stay away from the slaughter.
I think there's truth in this -- essentially you become more selective about the liquidity you provide.
Love ur channel and content.
I appreciate that!👍
Ive had a lot of success just looking up the put to call ratios each day and playing the opposite of the dominant force of the ratio weirdly enough. If the dominant force is puts i do calls that day, if the dominant force is calls i do puts that day. I find that the market makers actually just move the price in the opposite direction of the dominant ratio force
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Thanks brother for the tip
Could you please explain a bit. How I can find where to look at those ratios? I trade mostly crypto.
How did you understand this? I mean what ratios are these?@@UniqDon
First it might be better to call it "Behavioral Analysis" not Technical Analysis. Second, 80% of trading is done by computers and the code is designed to adjust and optimize results. Call it algos, bots, Machine Learning, AI, Recursive Multiple Variable Regression or whatever, it's following patterns and making profitable trades. It has learned that when price goes to an extreme it can "shake the tree" and see what falls out...bargains to go long or short of course. These programs have no emotions and will eventually react based on the results of what other programs are doing. So, could the algo programs collude in the end, or start working together??
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If it appeared to be profitable, and they are effective at performing according to expected value, then yes.
But it's neverending. It could also be profitable to compete against other bots....then switch to cooperation...then "betray" them....
So true, keep in mind that about 40% of all trades are done in dark pools which is not on the charts
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@@bigdealdoughnutz Charts show the data of what's happening on a market. Dark pools don't participate in that and don't report their own activities. It's really criminal because that activity hides the true values of things.
Agree with this video. Reverse trading is what SMC used to make money. Because there are no certainty in market, always monitoring and control your trade. Agile to exit -with profit, small profit or loses- and ready for the next trade.
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fantastic video
love it!!
Totally agree on this. Games being played all the time in Crypto. I give my trades much more room to move now and avoid the traps.
Got to, especially in crypto where liquidity is highly variable
Can get some mean wick
An easy rule to follow (from an interview with some old-shcool trader) : place your order where you would initially have placed your stop loss for what you thought was the entry point.
Works everytime lol
Also, candle wicks analysis works way better than classic patterns (in smaller timeframes especially) as they are an accurate representation of what is happening in the order book.
Excellent. BY the way....do you trade? Hope I'm overstepping any boundries but Could we see your PNL statement?🤔
Thank you so much brother. I always wondered why it happened and now I have an answer. Not sure if you’ll ever read this but what are the best pairs to play on. I only play Gold which is all over the place right now. Thanks again!
Glad I could help👍
I feel your pain, great forward plan.
What you're saying is 💯correct. coz I paper traded 100k and turned it into 13billion by not following the trend. Then I realized "trend is your friend" is a big scam. You always chase the price and lose
The trend is your friend until it's not and catches you by surprise
Thank you for this video i learn my lesson.
What kind of lesson i forgot what book teach me i get greedy about charting and losssing money i forgot to analyze correctly the market i don't follow what technical analysis teach me i got eating by my mentality greeding forgot what should i need to do.
Thank U for all this videos!! Im a beginner and i try to finde an edge; ur work help me a lot❤
You are so welcome!👍
Where and when patterns reveals is important 👌😉
This is an eye opening video
Thanks
I always believed you could always exploit the psychology of the retail traders who based their decision based on trading books - price actions. Great video!!
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Something I've noticed:
Fakeouts/liquidity runs - whether bullish or bearish - FREQUENTLY occur around Fibonacci retracement levels (0.5, 0.618 and 0.786).
Also did you notice that as more and more retail started using the optimal trade entry of .618 or .705 that the algo started going further to stop hunt those traders? Now it almost seems like it randomizes it's retracement level to keep people from being profitable using fib levels. It's amazing to watch it evolve.
@@bobvalley2221 yup. All the time
@bobvalley2221 yeah this is why only trade price action a day take 5 to 10 pips per trade
This is odd, I have a trade at 61.8 perfect structure zone and 78.6 is where I will be taking my entry instead of original 61.8. ;) also looked left for the highest wick over the original ideal entry .. if that makes sense .. would you consider that a liquidity grab, based off comment it seems like it.
Absolutely correct. Pattern are not reliable. Price & volume coordination is must in the long run 👍🏻
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awesome video!! the methodology could be: wait break of supp/res and enter only and if the price come back . In this case you can lost some trade when there isn't a fake but it is more safe. what do you think about it?
I disagree, patterns are not intentionally forged to trick you. They develop as a result of smart money activity. Patterns like head and shoulders have a high success ratio. Double tops/bottoms too are able to achive their targets with a high ratio.
yeah, and when you are aware of the traps and false signals, and mix it with chart reading, you can win a lot
Awesome video thanks so much!
Glad you liked it!👍
and another great video..thank you
Another awesome video Thank you Sir I always look forward to your new video
So nice of you👍
I don't believe in traps specifically set up for retail traders. They wouldn't make sense. As per Google about 95% of all volume comes from institutions. Those need liquidity, but the retail traders obviously can't provide it. So if there are really traps then they were set up institutions against institutions.
IMHO that's the reason why strategies and associated indicators stop functioning at some point.
Get the big picture. How much money are retail traders representing, and how much is this or that big trader handling? Which moves prices up or down? The one who can move prices is the "smart money". Figure out their moves, and you can be with them instead of against them.
Thank you for these valuable insights. How often do you think the smart money manipulations occur?
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@@TheSecretMindset several times a day
Good video I´ve been always with this idea, and specially when you put stop loss or take profit. In the Take profit, when it take it the market run aways and in the stop loss there are the stop loss chasers that go for you. That´s one of the reasons I started to hedge.
this channel gem of trading industry wow❤🎉
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This content is so true there especially obvious market manipulation not in favor of the retail trader. i doubt if there's any retail trader without market insight or tools that is successful
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ive noticed on most days they just chop it up. Unless its a fomc meeting or some big data comes out the market will try its best to stay even. Buying calls and puts in those days lose a lot of value. I know the market is at all time highs but still feels like it is being held up or something.
What if it took less capital to keep the markets propped up than what one might expect?
What if that were 70% of market activity -- just shuffling along and occasionally doing a relatively quick reset to be able to keep the game moving for another stretch?
What if "this is normal"?
Thanks for sharing ❤
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If you see a pattern, millions of other people see the same pattern. And more importantly, the big players and their algos see it too. It’s like playing a poker game and the opponent can see your cards. They know what you will do. So predictable. I think long ago there was an edge in patterns and technical analysis but not anymore. Algos have eliminated that edge. You are better off looking to do the opposite of what everyone else will do at a pattern break. Bc that’s what the big players are doing. Trade with the house not against it.
Well, that is or should be illegal the sec should look into this they say stock market is risky but if their cheating, I belive it is cheating the sec has a case only the blind can't see.
@@bingofuel3545 the SEC is in on it lol. They turn a blind eye to the corruption bc they get paid by the big boys to look the other way.
I totally agree. The old edge of TA is gone.. and I also believe they can see your TA and trade against it. Like you said, playing poker and being able to see your hand. Its the same thing...
your 100 % correct but also i always believed that these manipulations are variable according our stop losses and take profits are and always they do it other wise always in a percentage of there fayvar
Every retail trader is visible to smart money radar. No matter how you psyche yourself out to not follow the crowd, inevitably you end up following the retail crowd the majority of the time. I like the analogy the market term "whale" sort of illustrates- that whales rely on group mentality (of the krill) to feed. Whales work in packs and concentrate these retail traders and then open their huge mouths to take in the bulk of this concentration. Don't be the crowd!! I appreciate your insight and am inspired by your passion to win.
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Highly knowledgeable and eye opener video must needed the kind of videos...
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This is the holy grill. Thank you very much 🌻
Know doubt there is manipulation in the market, manipulation & corruption is everywhere, I have no trust in anyone from life experiences and it hurts.
Do you think the "bigger players" coordinate or is there only one market maker? If there are multiple market makers/bigger players do they ever go after each other?
Very Interesting
Sometimes you see the Algo's fighting against each other. Hugeee volume, but the candle isn't going anywhere. On the order book thousands or hundreds of thousands of shares keep getting added and whiped
The market makers are trading billions of dollars, they need supply or demand to fill their orders. So they create the buyers and sellers themselves, sounds pretty logical to me. The best tip is to not trade markets that are ranging in the higher time frames because those are the times price will most likely build up a liquidity pool and create an opportunity for market makers to stop out retail traders.
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Using SMC approach, I was able to complete my The5ers prop challenge.
In the video, you noticed you would lose every time you did something. STOP doing that!
You have to keep track of what works and what doesnt.
If you're bold, when you find something that usually doesnt work, do the opposite. Then you might begin winning!
Study the manipulators, not the textbooks. If you're afraid to try, you're risking too much money.
Chart patterns never made sense to me even when I was just starting out, because all these patterns are subjective but market structure is objective and down trend is a down trend a head and shoulder for one person could be something different for someone else but a downtrend is a down trend no matter what
So much respect for you brother ive beenn watching ur videos for years now. Please keep up this amazing job
Thanks dear.
I have my doubts about this since my first trade and now I see that I not wrong about this theory, that's its why I just learn sms an ict and used the liquidity pools strategies when I learned about market structure I see the hard easy way to make easy money, and and don't use any indicator too they are corrupted the only thing its the volume profile to see where the actions are, I Love your videos thanks!!!
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Dude. you *could* do the same thing, just place limit orders at absurd levels, you know, offer to pay too much or sell too low. Of COURSE this happens. What I want to know is what are you doing to trade successfully if the old predictive patterns are not working?
your real problem is attempting to hold position for extended period of time. Patterns will work for a short window and limited range until it hits a stop run. Market makers' business model is never about holding position for too long. Now I eventually have to place TP orders on the way up instead of waiting for a big level to sell out. Fib levels even matters to measure for potential stop run locations....and sometimes it's just tight.
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Patterns have a specific target to which it should be hold. You are wrong on your market makers' business model concept. Smart money is not looking at patterns, their activity shapes the market and make patterns. They are the pattern-makers, they dont care about patterns because their money is pushing the price. They have a potential future outlook of the underlying where it is supposed to go, so they are quietly building up their stock, accumulating or distributing as the case may be. They are in there for the long run, long run does not mean long term, they will keep on adding money like pyramiding until they feel its time to slowly get out. Retail traders are one-trade pony where they buy and moment it hits their target, they get out. Retail traders dont pyramid.
They have stop run levels to look at for risk management as they have to ensure they successfully create a one side direction range for profit in order for them to sell into (a profitable depth of orderbook to ensure they have net gain) and FOMOed retails will be the one they sell into. Which is also what we must be aware and be careful with each market making pump or dump. Soon they start to move, we have to focus on the intention of the move and find the best possible range to play for profit. At least, I have been purely in profit that way with minimized risk taking. Hasn't got one liquidation.
You can say that again. Many years back they presented a trading figure, I feel bad for not registering his name, but they claimed that this guy can crash the stock market. This time he was heading to Hong Kong.
for your type of trading you are right but big money trades differently then small money and what they doing is not specificaly on purpose to wipe you out but its harder to get into a trade with big money then going in with retail money
Good job, let's think out of the box
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In Trending market, when price prints Break of structure. That impulse has protected low most of the time....
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70% of all trades are algo's now, and yes, those algo's trade off retail trade flow. I don't trade off patterns, I use more than one broker, this is why.
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I’m not sure if it’s stop loss hunting or often on the down side, plunge protection longs up an otherwise crashing market.
Is there any way to see the buy/sell orders from the bank in real time? I would like to follow what they are doing rather than guess.
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The biggest misconception is charts tell you whats going to happen. Nope the charts tell you what has already happened. This can be useful but not by itself. You need a little bit of everything to give you an idea of what COULD happen. By watching the DOM ( level 2 ) you can see the passive buyers and sellers ( limit orders ) and get an idea of where your going to need a lot of aggressive buying ( market orders ) to move the price up or little buying to move the pri e up, and it will tell you how heavy the passive buyers are and if its going to take a little or a lot of market sell orders to move the price down.
Then is it a fake company or junk company releasing news so they can sell a bunch of shares they own pennies to the dollar while day traders and investors buy. Then watching tape to see when the limit sell orders start to stack up and you get out be for the market sellers starts buying from the week buy limit orders as buying slacks.
But in all this, no one can say for sertain if and when market buyers will be more than the market sellers.
The charts tell us what day, what time and at what price more market buys wete much atronger than the limit sellers.
It's all psychology that plays.. the higher the risk the greater the chances you end up losing. So risking only that you are capable of winning the amount back is the only way to play this game. I have been trading for 8 years now and still struggling to control my emotions. Every single f*kin day I learn something new about the move. I do day trade and everyday I trade there's always a new learning about the trade. It amuses me how much the market is similar to our finger prints, i.e., every day it's a new puzzle. I lost a huge amount of money yet I love the puzzle the market gives me to solve every day. It is indeed an addiction. I won't give up until I make up my losses 😂😅
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very true the market is a big ponzi now .
Using chart patterns, I was able to pass my Trade The Pool stock challenge.
How does SP increase without high volume? OTC is infamous for it.
thanks for being real. excellent upload.
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To a certain extent. We know the big boys are playing with us. You need to buy quality companies at support and sell at resistance, also wait for retest and confirmation. Scale into a position and exercise good risk management. This isn't rocket science.
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Successful people don't become like that overnight. What most people see in wealth, a great career and purpose is the result of hard work
I think you’re on to something with this one 🙏
Brother.... love ypur content.....In BTC monthly chart there is a cross down of 20 SMA and 50 SMA. But Market is in rising trend. I think it is fake.
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Yea bro institutions do accumulations then manipulations (SL hunting) then distribution towards where they want to…
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