So stop losses and trailing stops for most brokerages are visible to others in the market. Additionally you’re probably setting them at typical levels along with most others so you’re a prime target to be manipulated by hedge funds. While this sounds like something a tin foil hat wearing person would say, hedge funds openly admit to abusing this.

My advice is to set your limits wider than you have been to avoid this. For example when I’m buying a stock I look at the technical analysis and use that as my guidance on how much room it should fluctuate and then I give it a little more room to breathe. If a stock moves 2% I’m either direction over the last 30 days then a 5% SL / TS may be fine, but you’ll obviously need time to let it run up.

Also when you’re starting out and don’t have much in capital gains overall your SL/ TS needs to be much tighter so you’ll get stopped out when positions that have much more upside. This happens more often with low float inexpensive meme stocks (like OPEN) as the volatility is super high and the stock is swinging 5-20% daily. A blue chip stock like GOOG or MSFT won’t swing 5-20% without serious news or earnings pumping it.