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Doesn't that kind of software have annoying dialog boxes saying "Are you sure you want cause financial meltdown?"? Or at least a less intrusive "Did you mean 'm
by danh 16y ago
Doesn't that kind of software have annoying dialog boxes saying "Are you sure you want cause financial meltdown?"? Or at least a less intrusive "Did you mean 'm'?"?
It probably should.
- jacquesm 16y agoI think the first one is actually the better choice. It's really surprising, assuming this is really the cause, that a single letter typo could have such an effect and this has 1) never happened before and 2) not been caught in testing.
- alttab 16y agoMore than likely it is a cover story they hope will catch on enough to either cover the panic, or the real reason. I will tell you what though - someone... someone, made a lot of money from this. Inadvertently, but more than likely otherwise.
- jacquesm 16y agoI doubt it's a person that made money. Usually individual investors lose big time when stop loss orders are activated, it's the institutional investors that win.
- Nekojoe 16y agoStuff like this does happen now and again. One example is putting the wrong value in the wrong fields - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4512962.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4512962.stm In the above case the trader got the price and number of share fields confused.
- gaius 16y agoNo. I have actually worked on such software. When a price comes in - a quote - you have a fixed amount of time to respond before it goes stale, usually a few seconds. It's assumed you know what you're doing and that you want to move quickly. Same as operating any other high-powered machinery. I remember a feature request from a client of ours, we had keyboard shortcuts of k for thousand, m for million and b for billion. They wanted t as well.