market structure is keeping you unprofitable

Been thinking about something lately.

Actually, it's been bothering me for months.

You know that feeling when you've been doing something the same way for so long that you can't see it's not working?

Like you're too close to the problem?

That was me with market structure.

Two years of drawing perfect channels.

Support and resistance lines that could've been in a textbook.

Screenshots that made me feel like I knew what I was doing.

Blew close to three accounts doing it.

Here's what nobody tells you about those beautiful patterns...

They're retail bait.

Every time you see that "perfect" support level holding, there's an algorithm somewhere counting how many stop losses are sitting right below it.

Not guessing.

Actually counting.

I saw this last month.

EUR/USD bounced off 1.0850 four times.

Textbook support.

The kind of setup that makes you feel smart for spotting it.

Fifth touch?

Dropped 40 pips in 3 minutes, grabbed every stop, then reversed harder than my ex's feelings.

The market doesn't respect your lines.

It hunts your stops.

I used to think institutions were trading the same patterns I was.

They're not.

They're trading us.

They were trading us.

I think I can confidently yet respectfully say I no longer fall under us anymore,

Besides the point

Think about it...

Where do you put your stop loss?

Just below support.

Where does everyone else?

Same place.

What's sitting there?

Millions in orders.

Who needs those orders to fill their positions?

You already know.

Smart money isn't drawing trend lines. They're looking at liquidity pools like a shark seeking blood.

Started tracking liquidity instead of structure over a year ago.

Nothing fancy.

Just marking where stops would logically sit.

Swing highs, swing lows, round numbers.

Then waiting for the sweep.

My first month: Up 12%.

Month four: Best month of my career.

Same charts. Different eyes.

Here's what changed everything:

Stop asking "where is support?"

Start asking "where are the stops?"

Because that's where price is going.

Every. Single. Time.

Not to respect your levels.

To take what's sitting there.

You can keep drawing lines if you want. The institutions need someone to trade against.

I need someone to trade against,

Or you can start seeing what they see.

Liquidity pools. Stop clusters. The fuel that actually moves markets.

Your choice.

One things for sure,

I know which side i’ll be on.

Talk soon,

Atif