The market often 'harvests' small positions by repeatedly probing narrow stop-losses, and then through a larger pullback 'harvests' wide stop-losses, subsequently continuing to decline to clear out those investors who do not set stop-losses.
In the end, the vast majority of people will become nourishment for the market, which is the survival mechanism of the market itself, as it strives to digest different types of investors.
If you want to escape this situation, you must learn to avoid risks, minimize losses, and repeatedly go through the market's digestion cycle.