The market needs your stop-loss to function. Once you understand where liquidity rests and why price reaches for it, the 'random' spikes that stop you out become the clearest signal on the chart.
Stops cluster in obvious places: just beyond swing highs and lows, above and below round numbers, outside session ranges. Large players need that resting liquidity to fill size without moving price against themselves — so price is drawn toward it.
A sweep is price pushing past one of those levels, triggering the stops, then closing back inside. That rejection is your evidence the move was a raid for liquidity, not a genuine breakout. The direction price closes back into is usually the real direction.
Instead of placing your stop where everyone else does — right where price is designed to reach — you wait for the sweep to happen and enter on the rejection. You're now positioned with the flow that just absorbed the stops, not as the liquidity being absorbed.
Professional traders don't predict; they wait for liquidity to be taken and then respond. The sweep turns the market's most frustrating behaviour into your highest-conviction setup.