RootCore #6 Market-Maker Myths That Exist Only in Retail Traders’ Heads

This Article Is for Retail Traders

For those who trade on their own, who live in Telegram chats, believe YouTubers, chase “signals” and see “liquidity zones” where it’s really just a shaky hand. For those still searching for someone to blame for their trades.

There’s no magic here. No conspiracies. No invisible hands hunting your stop-loss. Only the simple, honest, and cold reality of how market making actually works.

If you’re a retail trader — this one’s for you.

1. Myth: Market makers manipulate the market to deceive others.

Reality: Manipulation is a luxury no one pays for.

Most of the “participants” supposedly being deceived do a great job deceiving themselves.

You listen to influencers and then go 100× long on futures with no stop-loss.

Why would anyone pay to maintain your illusion? you already do it for free.

This market is already full of voluntary marionettes, who never escapes their illusions.

2. Myth: Market makers profit from others’ losses.

Reality: Market makers profit from market-neutral strategies — boring as accounting, but stable as gravity.

Retail traders with serious faces look for “puppet masters,” but trade according to the biorhythm of their feet: stand up with right foot — buy, stand up with left foot — sell.

Back pain, bad dream — bearish. 3 cup of coffee — bullish.

Sometimes the puppet master is just your reflection in the monitor.

3. Myth: Market makers pump and dump.

Reality: Don’t confuse a surgeon with an arsonist.

Pump-and-dump crews are market takers — they are expanding volatility like teenagers playing with matches.

But market makers do the opposite: they compress volatility, restore structure and make the market look less like someone’s cocaine-fueled panic attack.

4. Myth: Market makers see your stop-losses.

Reality: Your stops aren’t worth anyone’s attention.

They’re so tiny that even combined they wouldn’t pay for a decent breakfast.

5. Myth: Market makers move price to “collect liquidity.”

Reality: Moving price just to hit your order is like demolishing a house to move a table.

Price moves because the market breathes, not because someone wants your 0.014 BTC.

6. Myth: Market makers are always profitable.

Reality: They just die much slower than others. Not due to magic — due to systems and math. We are not trying making everything from nothing tomorrow. We think with 6+ months perspective.

7. Myth: Market makers are a single secret organization.

Reality: We wish. But no. That’s even not a myth it’s just nonsense.

Market makers are dozens of competing teams cutting each other’s books, racing for latency, fighting for seconds.

If there were a single “master puppeteer,” the market would look perfect.

Instead, it looks exactly like what it is — the element.

8. Myth: Market makers should “push the price up.”

Reality: The market maker’s job is to preserve liquidity structure, not to satisfy the hopium dreams of bagholders.

If you want a guaranteed upward curve — don’t look for a market maker. Look for a pyramid.

The Final Truth

And if after all this you still want to search for puppet masters — just look for mirrors.

They’re more reliable and more honest. They always show the one who presses the Buy and Sell buttons.

Market makers don’t hunt traders. They don’t even look in their direction.

We build structure. You build interpretations.

And while retail traders fight their fantasies, the market moves because of those who work — not those who imagine.

A market maker is not your enemy. Your illusion about the market maker — is.

See you in the order book.