Sentence examples for finger trading from inspiring English sources

The agencies said they had found no evidence that the market decline was caused by so-called fat finger trading errors, or by computer hacking or terrorist activity.

Some favoured the theory of the "fat finger trade"—a mammoth but unintended sell order.

Was it a "fat finger" trade in which somebody had mistakenly entered "billion" instead of "million"?

Some market watchers have also speculated that a fat finger trade, where someone accidentally omits a decimal point or types the wrong number, could have been a factor.

For now, both regulators said that they had largely ruled out several other potential causes that had been widely discussed since Thursday, including erroneous or so-called fat finger trades, unusual trading in Procter & Gamble stock, and hacker or terrorist activity.

Traders believe that a similar "fat finger" trade prompted an 11 per cent drop in Diageo's share price, which today reported a slowdown in sales growth from 2.2 per cent in the first quarter to 1.8 per cent over the half.

The so-called "fat finger" trade resulted in the share price of Britain's largest bank rising more than 10 per cent and led to the suspension of its shares for five minutes.

The "Fat Finger" trades have shocked future contracts with a massive purchasing of E-mini S&P 500 contracts fueling the ripple effects of recent stock surge.

The "fat finger trade that never was" is both a gigantic wake-up call for regulators who desperately need to build firewalls into markets and educational for those wanting to see the extent of the tight braid of trading that binds all assets together.

Traders blamed the "flash crash" on a "fat finger" trade exacerbated by jumpy algorithms at a time of day when liquidity is sparse.

Over the following months, Van As and Owen collaborated on possible designs for prosthetic fingers, trading ideas and fabricating prototypes.