Why the move ran without you
A trade you've probably taken yourself — and the one thing on the screen that would have warned you.
You saw the breakout. Clean structure, volume confirming, everything your setup asks for. You took it.
Twelve minutes later your stop was gone — and price was sitting thirty basis points above where you'd been shaken out. By the time you'd typed "manipulation" into the group chat, it was running without you.
It wasn't manipulation. Fewer and fewer traders were actually backing that move. The people pushing the price up were on their way out — so once they finished, there was nobody left to keep it going.
Price slid back down, knocked out everyone's stop-losses, and only then started to climb for real.
And this was all visible. The warning signs were on the screen before you clicked buy.
Your entry was fine. What you couldn't see was whether real buyers were behind it.