{"id":2872,"date":"2010-10-23T16:20:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.betangel.com\/blog_wp\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2012-03-21T07:52:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T07:52:05","slug":"fat-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betfairtradingblog.com\/blog_wp\/2010\/10\/23\/fat-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat fingers crucify punter"},"content":{"rendered":"

I see lots of strange things in the markets but few stranger than what happened just a moment ago at Newbury. While I realise we all, in some way, take money of each other now and again. I feel a great deal of sympathy for what they did, we all screw up from time to time. I can’t imagine how they felt after this error.<\/p>\n

The long and short of it is that they backed a 400\/1 shot down to only 1.08, with significant amounts of money. All this occured before the off. Why, is anybodies guess. But you feel it could be a bot error. There is a discussion on the forum<\/a>, but here is an image I took quickly after this happened.<\/p>\n

It’s going to take some getting back I think.<\/p>\n

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I see lots of strange things in the markets but few stranger than what happened just a moment ago at Newbury. While I realise we all, in some way, take money of each other now and again. I feel a great deal of sympathy for what they did, we all screw up from time to […]<\/p>\n

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