Why Your Support/Resistance and Trendline Setups Keep Getting Stopped Out

Have you ever drawn a perfect horizontal support zone or a 3-touch trendline, only for price to briefly pierce through your stop loss before shooting aggressively in your intended direction? In SMC terminology, that's a liquidity sweep (or "fakeout" in SNR terms). Institutional market makers use those liquidity pools to fill large orders before moving price. Instead of trading the initial level, try waiting for the sweep and market structure shift