Ever hit sell instead of buy?

[superside]

I did.
I sold 120 coins at $80, I intended to buy 300 at 65 but instead I sold 300 at 65.
Tough blow, now I'm coinless.
Anyone else done this?

[Jaroslaw]

That was just stupid sir. I buy a lot of coins at 55 and sold them at 130. now waiting for another crash and enjoy my money

[trepper]

I think I've done quite worse: I've sold at 75€ on bitcoin24....  

[Savior]

I recommend the classic version of mtgox if you are using mtgox. A lot harder to make such a mistake. classic.mtgox.com

[superside]

Thanks! Much better!
Hopefully I can recoup this somehow

[piramida]

definitely you can - buy at 65 as you intended and still turn in nice profits

[superside]

Yea, looks like I might have to push back some timelines.
The money is going towards Charities. Right now I'm focused on one called Ozark http://ozarkwaterprojects.org/
My little 4k investment did generate 30k in profit so it's not a total loss. Hopefully by this time next month I'll have enough to fund a few projects in Uganda and Haiti.
For now I'm going to set my buy point back at 65 and hope it gets back there soon. I had a dream that we crashed down to $22 lol.

[seleme]

I did, both on mtgox and btc-e.. wish they had separate tabs for buy and sell.

[Fiery Winds]

I accidentally placed a sell order instead of a buy, but was fortunate that constant spamming of the Cancel button saved me.

[Wuji]

I haven't done that but didn't something maybe dumber.  I put in a big buy trade and then tried to transfer the coin to a safe wallet.  At the time I was being goxxed for changing a password on an account that was empty before I deposited to it (which is stupid).

Anyway later when I tried again I started over and made another buy talking on the phone instead of trying the transfer.  Luckily the price was low so it turned out to be ok but, I felt dumb and angry for not paying full attention to what I was doing.

[MOB]

I recommend the classic version of mtgox if you are using mtgox. A lot harder to make such a mistake. classic.mtgox.com

Thank you for that!  I have mixed my sell/buy twice before, usually when refreshing the page or re-logging in.

[bitrider]

Yes. I did the exact same thing on Gox. It was late at night or early morning, and I was not fully paying attention. Started my heart pounding when I saw those trades getting accepted and the balances shifting in the wrong way.. luckily things were moving slowly at the time and I just reversed the trade. Lost the commission, but small price to pay for such a stupid mistake. I committed not to try trading without full attention, like I'm driving my car on a hairy mountain road with new snow fall.   

[matt4054]

I did a variation of "stupid mistake" on BTC-TC: I placed a bid for 1 ASICMINER passthru share @ 6 BTC instead of 6 shares @ 1.
I was lucky because the sell order book had asks starting at 1 so I ended up buying only one share at 1 BTC.

Had the sell order book been empty (or at unreasonable prices), and a seller quick enough to match my buy order before I could cancel it, that would probably have been the most expensive ASICMINER share before a long time ;-)

[awakening]

I bought instead of sell one time lol. I waited to a few upticks to leave without any loses from the fees.

[superside]

This makes me feel better haha, damn mtgox.
I also contacted them on why my 5 mystery coins disappeared from an earlier non transaction. They said they were being ddosed and that the order I canceled went through but was reversed. So they took their 5 coin commission and gave me nothing. They don't intend to fix the issue either, I asked for my 5 coins back and they closed out my ticket. Great customer service

[kingcrimson]

Yes I've done this twice. Screwed me bad as well.....

[HappyBitCoinUser]

Just buy it back real quick and take small fee hit.

[wonkytonky]

happend to me a few times.. stupid me

[xorglub]

Happened too many times... I wish there was an option like "wait 1 minute before actually placing the order" when putting orders in.

[byronbb]

I am sure you can find a bot which will let you interface the api and issue commands like /buy 100 etc.