An investor made an unexpected profit due to a trading error.
An XTrader placed orders during a sharp V-shaped movement in the stock index, carefully planning position allocation and leaving part of the position hedged before going to sleep.
Upon waking up in the morning, she found that the hedged position had almost completely failed, but the overall portfolio had unexpectedly risen by 13-14%.
The gains and losses from the long and hedged positions should have led to only a few percentage points of gain. The truth is that she had mistakenly entered an extra zero in the last long position order.
In addition to mistakenly entering the wrong number, buy or sell may be mistaken when trading options.
In recent trades, I placed a “buy“ put order when I brushed my teeth. But later I found out I placed a sell order. Then I realized that I must stay focused during trading.
Stories like this are common both around me and in the Tiger community.
Previously, when a tiger intended to follow a short call strategy for $NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$ but ended up doing the opposite by buying calls. However, due to Nvidia's significant price increase, the tiger ended up making a substantial profit.
Have you ever experienced such accidental gains or losses due to a mix-up like this?
What mistakes have you made when placing orders?
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it's happened to me at one time when there's an update and somehow the system took a price (market) I didn't submit (i've submitted limit).
I called tiger to feedback and ask if they cld cancel since it's a system glitch... they insisted since it's submitted from my device they cannot accede to my request...
long story short... fortunately, the stock trended up... still it doesn't make up for the "danger" of such glitch...
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Have you ever experienced such accidental gains or losses due to a mix-up like this?
What mistakes have you made when placing orders?
Leave your comments and also post to win tiger coins~