andy1
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Post by andy1 on Oct 8, 2018 11:37:00 GMT
So on Friday afternoon I happened to see a small piece of a rare loan up for grabs and I thought, "I'll have that". I clicked through to buy, hit the confirm button and the trade went through but for £1 less than I expected. I assumed somebody had bought £1 and I'd got the rest and went on my way.
Not long after that an email arrives from MT HQ saying my trade had been flagged as suspicious as my buy order went through within 1 second of the listing and that I had better not be a bot! It didn't make a lot of sense at first but I think I've figured out what happened. I was too slow for the loan part that I'd seen listed and in a weird coincidence my attempt to buy coincided with someone listing the same loan for almost the same amount of money. I could see both trades in the recent investments section.
Anyway, nice to know that they do genuinely monitor the trades and look for bot-like behaviour.
And for the record, I'm not a bot.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2018 11:38:28 GMT
Only a bot would deny being a bot
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amwinv
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Post by amwinv on Oct 8, 2018 12:06:20 GMT
Remember the first rule of bot club?
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andy1
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Post by andy1 on Oct 8, 2018 12:07:05 GMT
Only a bot would deny being a bot Only a bot would accuse someone else of being a bot!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2018 12:29:28 GMT
Only a bot would accuse someone else of being a bot! Thats exactly the sort of thing a bot would say!
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andy1
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Post by andy1 on Oct 8, 2018 13:02:12 GMT
Only a bot would accuse someone else of being a bot! Thats exactly the sort of thing a bot would say! Was that an automated response?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2018 13:28:56 GMT
Was that an automated response? How dare you suggest that... afidlk%"MXkslffds@£!^Ab01 BUY CHEAP VIAGRA ONLINE $@%0Hxi9()&rLW!!@ NullPointerException in line 34 bot.exe: kernel panic [0xc8ef] invalid system dump follows
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jonno
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Post by jonno on Oct 8, 2018 14:01:48 GMT
Was that an automated response? How dare you suggest that... afidlk%"MXkslffds@£!^Ab01 BUY CHEAP VIAGRA ONLINE $@%0Hxi9()&rLW!!@ NullPointerException in line 34 bot.exe: kernel panic [0xc8ef] invalid system dump follows Nothing worse than a dump from a bot.
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toast
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Post by toast on Oct 8, 2018 14:35:29 GMT
So on Friday afternoon I happened to see a small piece of a rare loan up for grabs and I thought, "I'll have that". I clicked through to buy, hit the confirm button and the trade went through but for £1 less than I expected. I assumed somebody had bought £1 and I'd got the rest and went on my way. Not long after that an email arrives from MT HQ saying my trade had been flagged as suspicious as my buy order went through within 1 second of the listing and that I had better not be a bot! It didn't make a lot of sense at first but I think I've figured out what happened. I was too slow for the loan part that I'd seen listed and in a weird coincidence my attempt to buy coincided with someone listing the same loan for almost the same amount of money. I could see both trades in the recent investments section. Anyway, nice to know that they do genuinely monitor the trades and look for bot-like behaviour. And for the record, I'm not a bot. Same thing happened to me on Friday afternoon and I use no form of automation - not even a browser page auto-refresher which is currently permitted. The only way I can think that I might have triggered the alert is as follows: - A seller lists a loan part. - I navigate to the 'Invest now' section of the loan page. - Someone else buys the loan part. - A seller lists a loan part for the same loan. - I finish entering amount and click 'buy' on the 'Invest now' page and bought the second loan part rather than the first. When I went back to look at the recent activity on the loans, I could see a couple of purchases in quick succession (one of which was mine).
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