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by TacticalCoder 755 days ago
A "fat finger" of only 10x is not that much of a fat finger and may not be detected for it's probably nothing out of the ordinary compared to the brokerage account's size. The fat finger in TFA, however, is a quite bigger fat finger: $444 bn instead of $58m.

That's 10 000x. That one is, indeed, a UI issue.

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Also on fat fingers everyone will find this hilarious

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery

That's not just an UI issue, the backend system responsible of executing the order should have caught the out of limits order.