Price Has No Intent

Price does not decide to reverse at a level. It does not hunt your stop. It does not respect a zone or want to go anywhere. These are stories traders tell to make the market feel predictable. Price is simply the output of a continuous process — aggression arriving and meeting liquidity. When you describe price with intent-based language, you replace a mechanism with a story, and stories create expectations the mechanism has no obligation to fulfill. The language you use shapes what you look for. A trader watching to see whether buy-side liquidity is sufficient to absorb current aggression is watching something real. A trader waiting for price to respect support is waiting for something that does not exist.