Yes you are totally right on this, that is why I set my price alerts +/- 10 pips away from my SL. Maybe I am overreacting with this stop hunting thing but in any case I find it nice and reliable to get alerted from a third party source when my SL ...
How I understand the stop hunting is that the broker generates an artificial spike to trigger all those SL. So if I don’t place a pending SL order on their platform it will not be executed. At the same time I will not get alerted on the cell phone ...