r/wallstreetbets • u/TonyBerdata27 • Feb 04 '25

Gain Made $18k in less than 1 minute by accidentally sniping mispriced ask

I put in a large market order this morning, and somehow bought 1.9k shares at 75 cents each while the stock was actually trading for ~10$

I cropped out the ticker because it has <300M MC, but had to share this because this is so unbelievably regarded that I think I might have bought off one of you guys.

TLDR: I stole someone's shares for 90% discount because they probably mis-entered their limit order.

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u/0RGASMIK Feb 04 '25

I was listening to some shills talk about day trading and they were talking about a guy who basically became a legend in the early days of day trading by sniping deals like this. Basically just praying on boomers learning to trade on a computer for the first time.

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u/Salmonberrycrunch Feb 04 '25

Dude sounds like a real praydator

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u/BringOutTheImp Feb 04 '25

Boughts & Preyers

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u/roastedbagel Feb 04 '25

I love shitting on my fellow boomers as much as the next but 99% of these typo-snipes (this actually happens all the dam time with options) is the tweens on here who have no idea what options even are, fumbling their way through their first STC order sweaty hands and all.