Hey, I'm Ryan Mallory, and this is my swing trading, the stock market podcast.

I'm here to teach you how to trade in a complex, ever-changing world of finance.

Learn what it means to trade profitably and consistently, managing risk, avoiding the pitfalls of trading,

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Hey, everybody, this is Ryan Mallory with Swing Trading the Stock Market. In today's episode,

we're going to talk about stop loss hunting. There's this belief out

there among a lot of traders that the big money's out there to hunt out your stop losses and

take your shares only to reverse the stock and send it back to all-time highs. We're going to be

talking about whether that's something you should be worried about, whether or not that's something

you should be considering in your trading, and whether or not it even really exists. So we'll talk about that and more for

this email. We're going to call this guy Walker. Walker's from Canada. He asked me specifically for a

good Florida red nickname. And Walker's a pretty good one. He writes, hey Ryan, love the podcast,

been a loyal listener over the years. I love how you break it all down into smaller

subjects and keep each episode short and simple. Well, you know, with things like Twitter and Facebook,

you've got to kind of keep it short these days. You can't do these three-hour podcasts unless you have

something really good to talk about. And I think this is pretty good stuff to talk about, but I'm not always so sure it would be good to talk about over two or three hours, so I do keep it short.

He says, my question to you, and what I'd like to hear is, how do traders use different styles and forms of risk management?

I've made a watch list of stocks that I feel are the strongest in their respective group, growth versus value.

I manage risk and controlled position sizing and only buying on pullbacks.

I'm not comfortable with stop losses unless they are major supports, or there has been a major

story change in the stock. I find there is a lot of stop loss hunting from market makers,

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