Speculators generally don't make money on whipsaws. They lose it. They are getting chopped to pieces by this market, buying into uptrends that quickly reverse into crashes, and shorting into downtrends that quickly reverse into short squeezes. The people who use stop losses are getting them run. The people who don't are blowing up their accounts.
I don't know anyone who is trading well right now. Even those who have been shorting all the way down have had their stops run over and over and over, giving back most of the gains.