The fat fingers thread

[Bet Angel]

In honour of those moments the market goes mad.

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[oddstrader]

WOW!

[flowerpotmen]

Why? How?

[Leven]

Are these moves being kicked up by the numerous algos going nuts? Must be some great opps for value players...

[Bet Angel]

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[andyfuller]

You beat me to it

[blueport]

That's crazy!

What do you do if you have taken a lay position when the market collapses like that?

I'm thinking given the abnormal size of the spike you would just hold your position and wait for it to come back.

Considering you would already be facing a large red I guess there wouldn't be much to lose anyway.

I don't think I would have reacted to well faced with that situation.

Cheers,
Simon

[andyfuller]

15.20 AYR 17/09/10

[LeTiss]

I think we all agree there's been a huge increase in people using bots over recent times, so I'm not 100% convinced that all these highlighted mishaps are fat fingers

I think some are bots that have gone wrong, or have been badly scripted

[andyfuller]

Yes I would agree - I would say the majority are bots tbh.

[Bet Angel]

I concur.

[SpikeyBob]

No Peter, you generally tend to 'conquer'

[Bet Angel]

Gotcha!

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[Exacta]

wd

[PeterLe]

Gotcha!

100928 - 1445 - Fat fingers.png

was the graph displaying pre race or was it in running?
Thanks
Regards
Peter