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The Institutional Lens
"Thinking like a market maker. How to spot liquidity grabs and traps."
Retail traders trade patterns. Institutional traders trade liquidity.
Hunting Stop Losses
Large orders require immense liquidity to fill without moving the underlying price drastically. Where does this liquidity rest? Exactly where retail traders place their stop losses—just below obvious support or just above obvious resistance.
The Fakeout / Sweep
When you see price break a key level only to immediately snap back in the opposite direction, you are often witnessing an institutional sweep.
How Trentarev Helps
Our Whale Watch insights monitor the options chain for sweeping activity that diverges from simple price action. When you learn to spot these liquidity grabs, you stop being the victim of them and start trading alongside the market makers.