Topic: Ever hit sell instead of buy? (Read 1637 times)
I am sure you can find a bot which will let you interface the api and issue commands like /buy 100 etc.
Happened too many times... I wish there was an option like "wait 1 minute before actually placing the order" when putting orders in.
happend to me a few times.. stupid me
Just buy it back real quick and take small fee hit.
Yes I've done this twice. Screwed me bad as well.....
This makes me feel better haha, damn mtgox.
I also contacted them on why my 5 mystery coins disappeared from an earlier non transaction. They said they were being ddosed and that the order I canceled went through but was reversed. So they took their 5 coin commission and gave me nothing. They don't intend to fix the issue either, I asked for my 5 coins back and they closed out my ticket. Great customer service
I also contacted them on why my 5 mystery coins disappeared from an earlier non transaction. They said they were being ddosed and that the order I canceled went through but was reversed. So they took their 5 coin commission and gave me nothing. They don't intend to fix the issue either, I asked for my 5 coins back and they closed out my ticket. Great customer service
I bought instead of sell one time lol. I waited to a few upticks to leave without any loses from the fees.
I did a variation of "stupid mistake" on BTC-TC: I placed a bid for 1 ASICMINER passthru share @ 6 BTC instead of 6 shares @ 1.
I was lucky because the sell order book had asks starting at 1 so I ended up buying only one share at 1 BTC.
Had the sell order book been empty (or at unreasonable prices), and a seller quick enough to match my buy order before I could cancel it, that would probably have been the most expensive ASICMINER share before a long time ;-)
I was lucky because the sell order book had asks starting at 1 so I ended up buying only one share at 1 BTC.
Had the sell order book been empty (or at unreasonable prices), and a seller quick enough to match my buy order before I could cancel it, that would probably have been the most expensive ASICMINER share before a long time ;-)
Yes. I did the exact same thing on Gox. It was late at night or early morning, and I was not fully paying attention. Started my heart pounding when I saw those trades getting accepted and the balances shifting in the wrong way.. luckily things were moving slowly at the time and I just reversed the trade. Lost the commission, but small price to pay for such a stupid mistake. I committed not to try trading without full attention, like I'm driving my car on a hairy mountain road with new snow fall. 
I recommend the classic version of mtgox if you are using mtgox. A lot harder to make such a mistake. classic.mtgox.com
Thank you for that! I have mixed my sell/buy twice before, usually when refreshing the page or re-logging in.
I haven't done that but didn't something maybe dumber. I put in a big buy trade and then tried to transfer the coin to a safe wallet. At the time I was being goxxed for changing a password on an account that was empty before I deposited to it (which is stupid).
Anyway later when I tried again I started over and made another buy talking on the phone instead of trying the transfer. Luckily the price was low so it turned out to be ok but, I felt dumb and angry for not paying full attention to what I was doing.
Anyway later when I tried again I started over and made another buy talking on the phone instead of trying the transfer. Luckily the price was low so it turned out to be ok but, I felt dumb and angry for not paying full attention to what I was doing.
I accidentally placed a sell order instead of a buy, but was fortunate that constant spamming of the Cancel button saved me.
I did, both on mtgox and btc-e.. wish they had separate tabs for buy and sell.
Yea, looks like I might have to push back some timelines.
The money is going towards Charities. Right now I'm focused on one called Ozark http://ozarkwaterprojects.org/
My little 4k investment did generate 30k in profit so it's not a total loss. Hopefully by this time next month I'll have enough to fund a few projects in Uganda and Haiti.
For now I'm going to set my buy point back at 65 and hope it gets back there soon. I had a dream that we crashed down to $22 lol.
The money is going towards Charities. Right now I'm focused on one called Ozark http://ozarkwaterprojects.org/
My little 4k investment did generate 30k in profit so it's not a total loss. Hopefully by this time next month I'll have enough to fund a few projects in Uganda and Haiti.
For now I'm going to set my buy point back at 65 and hope it gets back there soon. I had a dream that we crashed down to $22 lol.
definitely you can - buy at 65 as you intended and still turn in nice profits 
Thanks! Much better!
Hopefully I can recoup this somehow
Hopefully I can recoup this somehow
I recommend the classic version of mtgox if you are using mtgox. A lot harder to make such a mistake. classic.mtgox.com
I think I've done quite worse: I've sold at 75€ on bitcoin24.... 
That was just stupid sir. I buy a lot of coins at 55 and sold them at 130. now waiting for another crash and enjoy my money
and enjoy my money
I did.
I sold 120 coins at $80, I intended to buy 300 at 65 but instead I sold 300 at 65.
Tough blow, now I'm coinless.
Anyone else done this?
I sold 120 coins at $80, I intended to buy 300 at 65 but instead I sold 300 at 65.
Tough blow, now I'm coinless.
Anyone else done this?
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