The Market is Designed to Mess You Up

20 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video ("The Market is Designed to Mess You Up" by Kosta Ouzas) explaining that the discussed trading algorithm models the behavior of large institutional execution algorithms: it breaks down very large orders, averages execution over long periods to absorb market depth, accumulates where institutions accumulate, and later distributes as the market rises. The clip frames this as basic trading strategy ("trading 101").

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That's trading 101. What the algorithm is doing is it's modeling the same patterns that larger institutions are doing with their algorithms, right? So they have to break down these enormous orders and they have to move in and out of significant size positions, billions of dollars positions. So it takes a lot of orders and they have to average them over a long period of time and a lot of market depth. So our algorithm is doing the same thing. It's accumulating where, where they are accumulating. And then as the market moves back up, it'll start distributing, just like our algorithm will do it.