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The closest I ever got to 'winning' in such a situation was back in the mid-00s when the platform I was trading futures on locked hard and wouldn't send confirmations of trade execution. When the data got fixed I was suddenly short 32 S&P eminis when I had tried to go long only 8, didn't get a confirmation, and kept trying to submit a reversing order. That evening, the brokerage thankfully admitted the problem and credited me the few hundred $$ that I 'lost' on the inadvertent trade + all the commissions....thankfully the market didn't move very much while I was in that bad and grossly over-levered position. (Of course, I never trusted the platform and soon moved elsewhere.)
You have not lived as a trader until you experiencing a shock like that.... lol
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The closest I ever got to 'winning' in such a situation was back in the mid-00s when the platform I was trading futures on locked hard and wouldn't send confirmations of trade execution. When the data got fixed I was suddenly short 32 S&P eminis when I had tried to go long only 8, didn't get a confirmation, and kept trying to submit a reversing order. That evening, the brokerage thankfully admitted the problem and credited me the few hundred $$ that I 'lost' on the inadvertent trade + all the commissions....thankfully the market didn't move very much while I was in that bad and grossly over-levered position. (Of course, I never trusted the platform and soon moved elsewhere.)
You have not lived as a trader until you experiencing a shock like that.... lol