What Is Stop Hunting?
Stop hunting is a strategy that attempts to force some market participants out of their positions by driving the price of an asset to a level where many individuals have chosen to set stop-loss orders. The triggering of many stop losses at once typically creates high volatility and can present a unique opportunity for investors who seek to trade in this environment. -Investopedia.
Who does this?
Institutions that trade in large volumes.
Technically, the script was trading near its supply zone. A breakout from this zone can be seen in the charts. But, just ahead of this breakout we can see a sharp sell-off almost taking the price to its demand zone. This sell-off would have encouraged more traders to sell or go short in their positions thereby creating huge liquidity for the institutions who wanted to go long or buy in large volumes (more sell orders from retail people - more shares available for institutions to buy).
Immediately following this, we can see the script going up by 20% thereby giving losses to those who had short positions.
The traders who had a long view would have lost because of the initial sell-off.
The traders who had shorted would have lost because of the massive rally that followed the sell-off.
Stop hunting is a strategy that attempts to force some market participants out of their positions by driving the price of an asset to a level where many individuals have chosen to set stop-loss orders. The triggering of many stop losses at once typically creates high volatility and can present a unique opportunity for investors who seek to trade in this environment. -Investopedia.
Who does this?
Institutions that trade in large volumes.
Technically, the script was trading near its supply zone. A breakout from this zone can be seen in the charts. But, just ahead of this breakout we can see a sharp sell-off almost taking the price to its demand zone. This sell-off would have encouraged more traders to sell or go short in their positions thereby creating huge liquidity for the institutions who wanted to go long or buy in large volumes (more sell orders from retail people - more shares available for institutions to buy).
Immediately following this, we can see the script going up by 20% thereby giving losses to those who had short positions.
The traders who had a long view would have lost because of the initial sell-off.
The traders who had shorted would have lost because of the massive rally that followed the sell-off.