Stop ..... is a practice by traders and/or market makers whereby they move prices intentionally to hit a specific level in order to trigger the stop orders they know are piled up there; the reason for doing so is to be able to take the other side of those trades and profit by the short-term move the flurry of activity creates. (*) fishing (*) hunting (*) preying (*) stalking
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