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Fat-finger errors are a regular occurrence in the financial markets: In 2001, UBS sold 610,000 Dentsu-shares at ¥6, instead of 6 Dentsu-shares at ¥610,000.
"Fat finger" typing (especially in the financial sector) is a slang term referring to an unwanted secondary action when typing. When a finger is bigger than the touch zone, with touchscreens or keyboards, there can be inaccuracy and one may hit two keys in a single keystroke.
The fat-finger theory: In 2010 immediately after the plunge, several reports indicated that the event may have been triggered by a fat-finger trade, an inadvertent large "sell order" for Procter & Gamble stock, inciting massive algorithmic trading orders to dump the stock; however, this theory was quickly disproved after it was determined that ...
Trader’s ‘fat finger’ costs Citi $79 million after U.K. fines bank over mistake that triggered 2022 market spasm. Dylan Sloan. May 22, 2024 at 10:52 AM. Mike Kemp—In Pictures/Getty Images.
Google shares melted down the other day after the company's filing agent, R.R. Donnelley, prematurely filed Google's unusually weak earnings a little earlier than anticipated. However, the market ...
By May 7, 2018, Samsung Securities stated that it would file criminal lawsuits against employees who sold their shares during the fat finger incident. [3] On May 28, 2018, government prosecutors raided the Samsung offices. [10] [needs update]
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