Have you ever had the experience of your entry going as planned and profits starting to rise smoothly, only to see one bearish candle appear and feel the urge to exit before the gains disappear?

“What if it returns to cost?” “I should take profit now,” you might have pressed the close button within a few tens of pips, only for the chart to surge in the direction you had originally targeted by 100 pips or 200 pips with furious momentum…

On the other hand, in a stop-loss scenario, you stubbornly cling to the belief that “it will come back someday” without basis, and a single loss wipes out several prior profits. This classic“small profit, big loss (dollar-cost averaging into a plunge)”loop traps you, and no matter how high your win rate, your total net becomes negative.

Why do many traders chicken out along the way? The root cause is not a matter of mentality or guts, but a failure to understand the market’s most important principle“Prices search for orders (liquidity)”that underpins the mechanism.

1. The true form of chicken take-profit is not “weak mental” but “absence of destination”

When you cannot extend profits in trading, many traders fall back on psychology like “my mental strength is weak” or “I must improve my grip (holding power).” However, no matter how much you train your mind, chicken take-profit will not be cured unless you address the structural problem.

As behavioral economics’ “prospect theory” proves, humans instinctively feel: when in profit, we want to lock it in immediately to avoid pain; when incurring losses, we want to recover principal even at the cost of ignoring probabilities. If you trade by emotion, you inevitably converge to “small profits, big losses.”

If you run in the dark without knowing the destination, you will fear and stall at even a small adverse move. Conversely, if you clearly know the destination, you can hold your position through noise and temporary retracements until you reach it.

2. The essence of the market: “Prices search for orders (liquidity)” — what does it mean?

So, how is the destination determined in the market?
If you drill down into the mechanism that drives chart price movements, you reach one absolute fact:“Prices search for thick orders (liquidity)”This is a principle as if a physical law.

What governs FX and Gold markets are not retail investors but big players like institutions, hedge funds, and central banks moving hundreds of billions.

For them to enter or close huge positions, there must exist opposing orders of equivalent scale in the same price range.

If a massive amount is liquidated in a price zone with very little liquidity, the price can slide and you incur disadvantage due to your own orders. Therefore, big players intentionally push prices into zones where orders from traders all over the world accumulate (a zone dense with stops and limit orders) and place their orders there to offset and execute them.

3. The true nature of the “Liquidity Pool” that big players target

The area where orders cluster, which big players target for settlement or setups, is called the “Liquidity Pool” in Smarts Money Concepts (SMC) and ICT theory.

Where on the chart liquidity tends to accumulate are mainly three points.

Big players target these zones, drawing the crowd’s stops into them and causing rapid price movements (the so-called “stop-hunt”).

If you have ever experienced a price reversing right after your stop is hit, that moment is when you became a liquidity provider (sucker) for big players. However, from a different perspective, you can understand that “the destination of this liquidity is the true goal the market aims for.”

4. 【Practical Technical】A technique to visualize the destination where orders gather on the chart

So, how can you objectively perceive on the trading screen the destination where prices will search for orders? Here are three concrete approaches explained.

Approach 1: Arithmetic calculation of N-wave (ABC wave)

Markets do not move in a straight line but in waves. Once the starting point (A), pullback high (B), and propulsion starting point (C) are confirmed, the width between A-B is used to calculate the next propulsion energy via the “N expansion value.”

• 100% (N width): The basic target extending the A-B width from point C.
• 161.8% (FE expansion): A standard liquidity accumulation zone when the trend is strongly advancing.
• 200.0% (double N width): Final objective where climax energy is released and many take-profit orders intersect.

Approach 2: Automatic wave detection by AI/algorithms

Manual Fibonacci drawing introduces trader subjectivity (which wick to use), reducing reproducibility.

Solving this is AI-based algorithm analysis. AI detects wave formation patterns and expansions automatically, and when paired with a confidence score (e.g., AI SCORE 85+), draws target lines of “161.8%” and “200.0%” on the chart so anyone can consistently identify the shared destination.

5. 【Practical Application】 Concrete trading strategies to eliminate chicken take-profit

Let’s translate the theory “Prices search for orders” into practical actions you can use in tomorrow’s trades. The three steps are:

6. Summary — When the destination is visible, fear of the market disappears completely

In FX and GOLD trading, stop relying on emotional or gut-based approaches to face the market any longer.

What you need to win is not meaningless mental strengthening, but understanding the universal principle that “Prices search for orders (liquidity)” and correctly drawing the destination on the chart.

• The root cause of chicken take-profit is not lack of guts but absence of destination.
• Big players move prices toward areas where crowd orders accumulate to settle their enormous positions.
• If you can visualize liquidity targets such as “161.8%” and “200%” via AI or mathematical calculations, you won’t be swayed by noise along the way.

From the “darkness where it’s unclear how far it will extend” to “a world where big players’ goals are visible in advance.” A simple change in perspective can dramatically improve your trading results and mental state.

The method to build a trading environment where the destination is visible and exclusive know-how are available

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Long-awaited next-generation environment: AI WAVE MT5 version finally released

The MT4 logic remains the same, and the MT5 (MQL5) version, which greatly enhances “visualization of entry rationale” and “exceptional operability,” is now officially available.

“I don’t know when the next wave detection will come”

“Open multiple charts and it becomes hard to see everything”

These small stresses and concerns in trading are all resolved by MT5’s advanced, proprietary features.

Why does the AI-indicated target width (target line) attract price as if by a magnet?

The answer lies in the market’s fundamental tendencies.
That is,“Prices search for thick orders (liquidity)”as a fact.

Big players and institutions with massive funds require places where a huge opposing batch of orders accumulates to execute their large settlement orders.

Where is that? It is the technical levels where many crowd traders place stops or new limit orders—stops and key levels that are psychologically significant.

The lines such as 161.8% and 200.0% calculated and drawn by AI WAVE are not mere numbers; they visualize “zones where orders are likely to concentrate,” which are targets for big players. Because the destination (the liquidity cluster) is known in advance, you can hold positions with confidence through intermediate noise without being misled.