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The "my broker took me out" concept is widely shared by newbie traders. The reality is, what is a stop-loss? 20-pips? 50-pips? And from what point... your entry or a known (highly probability) S&R price? The broker will not hunt "your" stops. I have traded with 10-pip stop-losses in a strategy now for several years, with three different brokers, and I can only think of one time wherein I thought something was funny. And I am sure that was just a market price not a broker manipulated reality. But, what I always recommend to traders, open up a couple of demo accounts, open some short term charts with each one (1-minute is fine) and let them run. When you suspect a broker has "chased your stop" and you see an exceptional move in price, validate that it is or is not occurring on all your charts with different broker feeds.I also know the more reputable brokers will (typically) replace any money lost that occurs in such a spike that is proven to be ONLY in their feed and not in general market pricing. You have to remember, this is all bits and bytes, and between the data feed, routers, your ISP, your computer, there can be burps now and then which are NOT the broker's evil efforts to trade against you.Lastly, remember, most brokers have thousands upon thousands of traders, many of which are trading at once. To conceptualize the broker or their desk seeing your stop is fairly unlikely... and with different strategies and models being traded, different intra-day time periods, you have a variety of stop-losses at different distances from major S&R points. Bottom line, put your focus on learning your strategy, focusing on the wins, and not allow your trading ego to convince you that a loss is some external party manipulating the market.Naturally, I am not suggesting there might not be some brokers who are devious ... we know this to be true, too. Which is why you have to select a main stream broker (especially for newer traders) who has a reputation to protect and has a volume of traders that would prevent such obvious manipulation. Again, it's easy to spot by looking at multiple feeds and comparing. I would also ask the broker's support rep about refunding any loses if you can prove their spike was ONLY in their feed, just to test the water. If they are resistent, then you might consider another broker.Good luck bagging the pipparoos!:)Steve
