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Title: Be very careful of fat fingers!!! Post by: Bowjob on April 08, 2013, 08:50:47 AM https://i.imgur.com/Qr8Bw7H.png
Oh mother of Satoshi... Title: Re: Be very careful of fat fingers!!! Post by: Zomdifros on April 08, 2013, 08:55:00 AM Wow you're right: http://bitcoinity.org/markets/btce/EUR
Some people got very lucky, one person very sad. Seems like he lost 'only' 200 coins though. Title: Re: Be very careful of fat fingers!!! Post by: Akka on April 08, 2013, 08:57:11 AM Probably some account got hacked, had mail verification activated, so the thief couldn't get the BTC out, so he sold them cheap to himself.
Title: Re: Be very careful of fat fingers!!! Post by: HappyBitCoinUser on April 08, 2013, 09:11:51 AM LOL
Happened to me other day, accidently bought BTC at current rates instead of sell BTC at current rates, but quickly realized it and re-sold the BTC I accidently bought, probably for 1-2% loss. Title: Re: Be very careful of fat fingers!!! Post by: kiko on April 08, 2013, 09:54:15 AM That must have ruined someone's morning.
I don't understand why he didn't get filled at the best price buyers were willing to pay. Whoever implemented that trading engine was just taking a short cut instead of putting his clients first. I wouldn't want to trade there after seeing this. Title: Re: Be very careful of fat fingers!!! Post by: crazy_rabbit on April 08, 2013, 10:04:16 AM that can't be true. He would have first filled all the buy orders above 1 Euro, which would have been very many. He would have lost coins, but he could have bought back in. BTC-E trade system fills the orders before you first.
Title: Re: Be very careful of fat fingers!!! Post by: Aswan on April 08, 2013, 10:08:58 AM that can't be true. He would have first filled all the buy orders above 1 Euro, which would have been very many. He would have lost coins, but he could have bought back in. BTC-E trade system fills the orders before you first. This, I did that before, you can even click the calculate button and it will take into account all standing orders and the amount of the orders to tell you how much you get in total. Title: Re: Be very careful of fat fingers!!! Post by: Endgame on April 08, 2013, 10:14:39 AM wonder if this was a trading engine error or fat finger error
Title: Re: Be very careful of fat fingers!!! Post by: Logik on April 08, 2013, 10:47:09 AM Obviously not much of a trading "engine" then, is it? :P
Title: Re: Be very careful of fat fingers!!! Post by: DeathAndTaxes on April 08, 2013, 03:15:31 PM If BTC-e doesn't trade from the top of the stack then it shouldn't even be called an exchange. I mean seriously I can put an order on MtGox (or bitfloor, or bitstamp, etc) right now to sell x BTC @ $1.00 USD and I will get the best bid. Now granted if x is very large I will burn through the stack and drop the price but no trading engine anywhere for any reason should execute at less than the best price available.
A limit order of X @ $Y doens't mean trade X @ $Y. It means trade UP TO X at a price NO WORSE THAN $Y. |