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‘TWTRQ’ stock up as much as 1,800% as investors confuse Tweeter for Twitter

2 pointsby strongvigilanceover 11 years ago

3 comments

jeremysmythover 11 years ago
Previous post: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6497250" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6497250</a><p>Previous discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6498983" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6498983</a>
pfortunyover 11 years ago
They programmed the HFT bot with a regex &#x2F;^TWTR&#x2F; and forgot the trailing $...
dotcomaover 11 years ago
Talk about the &quot;invisible hand&quot; of the market. ROTFL