How institutions 'hunt' liquidity — why retail traders get manipulated=

14 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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This YouTube video (creator: Kosta Ouzas) explains how institutional traders 'hunt' liquidity and manipulate retail traders. It argues that institutions herd retail traders into disadvantageous positions by targeting pockets of liquidity—areas of contractually obligated buyers—so retail traders sell low and buy high.

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We don't move the market. Now, in mass retail, traders can spark it, but they're being manipulated into. Into doing that. Right. It's being. They're being herded. So is what he was referring to here, these pockets of liquidity is where these are already contractually obligated buyers. So really, what they're doing is the market. You're supposed to be buying low and selling high. But what they're doing is they force these positions here to sell low and these positions to buy high.