No, 'finger error' is not a correct phrase in written English.
However, the phrase 'typing error' can be used in written English and can refer to a mistake that has been made when typing. For example, "I made a typing error when I sent the email and sent it to the wrong person".
"The idea that it was a 'fat finger' error is ludicrous; unless the fat finger hit every market in the world virtually simultaneously.
The result is cases where individuals enter a wrong number on the eight-digit account number – dubbed a fat finger error – and the money goes to an unintended recipient.
Earlier practitioners would be standing up for 10 hours in the 'pit', estimating option prices by plugging numbers into a basic calculator (big fat finger error risk!), shouting and waving hand signals.
In 2014, Japanese stock markets were plunged into chaos when a smaller trade accidentally became a $617bn£494bnbn) trade, while a big drop in the FTSE 100 this time last year was blamed on a fat finger error.
Experts said they had not found hacker or terrorist activity; no "fat finger" error in which an order for millions of shares was entered as billions; no unusually large single-stock trade that triggered the decline.
Some speculated that the Knight systems performed an electronic version of the old "fat finger error," where lists of orders go through more than once, or extra zeros appear due to mismatched programs.
The extreme values were included to look for finger errors, which were extremely rare.
But for now, I think, unions might be better advised to keep their powder dry.Correction: a "fat-finger" error caused us to suggest that the miner's strike ended in 1983, rather than 1985.
Increase security with automated, repeatable processes that serve to eliminate fat-finger error and, even more importantly, build security controls from the very beginning.
The problem is that the results of such "fat-finger errors" are often not reproducible: iPhones, Android phones and other smartphones learn from the patterns of individual users so that suggested replacements are tailored to the history of a given phone, with a focus on recent and frequently used words.
As a bonus, removing manual tasks also removes the potential for fat-finger errors.
