you are not up against "criminal manipulative large funds" or bots or anyone else
there is only one person you are up against, and that's the person that stairs back at you everytime you look at a mirror
That's the only person you have to be concerned about
if you made a bad trade..."YOUR FAULT"....if you lost money ..."YOUR FAULT"...if you keep making the same mistakes....see a pattern here?
the market goes up, the market goes down...whatever happens to your money, the market doesnt care
as soon as you realize this, you'll be in a better place to make decisions about your time and money
it's currently reporting season and the market will always throw up opportunities...opportunities to make money, and opportunities to lose money...or opportunities to decide if your time would be better spent doing anything else other than throwing your money out the window