Lost 5000 bucks on a FAT Finger mistake
- Thread starter silent creature
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sorry to hear about your error.
however, trade confirm buttons are for wimps.
you'll get it back!
surf
500 share of rimm last friday at 224 before it took the big swan dive. Of course the trade was for short but fat-fingered long. kept smiling as it dove and dove until I got curious with the P&L screen and then about threw up. Sold....then sickeningly watched it climb back towrds the initial idiotic entry Monday and Tuesday. Kid can go to community college I guess! (joking). 
Having one helluva hard time pulling the trigger on anything today.
Edit: Thursday puke and sell, not Friday
Having one helluva hard time pulling the trigger on anything today.
Edit: Thursday puke and sell, not Friday
You trade long enough, you'll make every error in the book. It's just the law of averages. You think you can execute 10, 50 or 100,000 trades over the years and not make mistakes?
I could probably retire on all the money lost to mistakes over the last 5 years. It's part of the business, curse and punch something, then let it go.
I could probably retire on all the money lost to mistakes over the last 5 years. It's part of the business, curse and punch something, then let it go.