increase - the 'trade confirm' button is for newbie's that want a chance to chicken out of taking a trade or have a reason to blame something for not being able to get into a winner. Seriously. Once you start trading and realize that confirm step just gets in your way, you'll understand.
Lost 5000 bucks on a FAT Finger mistake
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increase - the 'trade confirm' button is for newbie's that want a chance to chicken out of taking a trade or have a reason to blame something for not being able to get into a winner. Seriously. Once you start trading and realize that confirm step just gets in your way, you'll understand.
No problem buddy, unless this is a huge impact on your capital, keep it up!
We all made tons of this "fat finger" or hot keys errors in times of direct.acces trading, good that you came up and tell the error without any shame.
The most important is to keep the mind focus and that you don't try to recover this extra loss quick, this usually leads to a follow-through loss.
We all made tons of this "fat finger" or hot keys errors in times of direct.acces trading, good that you came up and tell the error without any shame.
The most important is to keep the mind focus and that you don't try to recover this extra loss quick, this usually leads to a follow-through loss.
Learned that lesson in the past as well.
I agree, not a good idea
Dudes, if you've read his previous posts, he's more or less an investor, not a full fledged trader. Doesn't have the ultratight risk parameters like traders do.
i made a fat head mistake TWICE today:
i've been having trouble with TWS where it's taking a good second to go from click to green (sits @ blue). anyway... put in a few trial limits well away from market to check the lag- clicked the wrong side of booktrader (doh) and, of course, immediate execution- cost me 3 points, as luck would have it, the ER2 was breaking out as i was errantly going short. pretty much sums up my trading prowess today...
i've been having trouble with TWS where it's taking a good second to go from click to green (sits @ blue). anyway... put in a few trial limits well away from market to check the lag- clicked the wrong side of booktrader (doh) and, of course, immediate execution- cost me 3 points, as luck would have it, the ER2 was breaking out as i was errantly going short. pretty much sums up my trading prowess today...
Do you want to tell us another fake story as in your previous thread?Quote from silent creature:
lost 5 k because I thought my position was long , in 1 minute it took to correct the mistake 5 k gone
Have at me gentlemen
have at me,
I deserve it.
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99937&perpage=6&pagenumber=14
you are smart to read my posts, not a joke.
but perhaps not as smart in interpretation
