it is a common fallacy to be a profitable trader all you have to do is take the opposite side of a losing traders trades. This is even more true when stop sizes are relatively small. To try to shed some light on this think about the following experiment. 10,000 trades entered at random direction, with 20 points stop and 20 point take profit, no spread, no commission. You would expect 5,000 winners and 5000 losers, no sir that would be wrong, there will be many more losers due to the nature of the markets need to liquidate.