How far this market usually moves
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Price travels a measurable distance inside every candle
The distance from a candle's high to its low is how far price travelled while that candle was forming. This course calls that everyday travel noise: movement that happens whether or not any one trade is working out. It matters here because a stop is a price, so a stop inside that everyday distance can be reached by it. Across every EUR/USD 4 hour bar from 2 January 2026 to 31 August 2026, 1,122 bars in all, the average high to low distance was 22.6 pips. The bar marked below travelled 22.0 pips, close to that average, which is what this course means by an ordinary bar.
A stop can be reached by ordinary movement alone, if it sits too close to the entry
The bracket below is 15 pips, drawn on the EUR/USD 4 hour chart this plan is taken from. The average bar on that pair and timeframe travelled 22.6 pips from high to low, measured across 1,122 bars from January to August 2026, so a single ordinary candle covers 15 pips on its own. The stop is reached, the position closes and the loss is taken, while the plan the trade was opened on has still not been tested. One limit on the figure: 22.6 pips is an average, and plenty of bars travel further than it.