|
|
Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2015 9:20:02 GMT
That is wonderful, buying £800k loan by mistake, there are days when the world just gets funnier and we all need a little humour to give us light in these dark days. I may even tell my vicar (if I knew who he was) to he can put it in his sermon.  |
|
ianj
Member of DD Central
Posts: 656 
Likes: 520
|
Post by ianj on Dec 21, 2015 9:33:04 GMT
First you build a keystroke replication macro to submit a purchase request... <cough>bot</cough> And full marks to you for owning up... to being the oft-rumoured botmaster... <g> Any sobriquet including 'master' infers a certain degree of competence, which alas, I totally failed to display..... ..... and in case anyone's interested, I still haven't succeeded in getting the offending process to work in all circumstances!
|
|
registerme
Member of DD Central
Posts: 6,624
Likes: 6,437
|
Post by registerme on Dec 21, 2015 10:12:06 GMT
Initially, time appeared to slow. For what seemed an eternity, in reality probably only seconds, the brain refused to accept the information received from the eyes, and far from turning the air blue, I have the distinct recollection of just sitting, mouth agape no doubt, as I contemplated what had happened and how it could have occurred. Yes, I think this meets the requirements to be defined as an "oh ****" moment  . I imagine you were in quite a pickle until it got unwound.
|
|
|
|
Post by spareafewcoppersguv on Dec 21, 2015 10:34:08 GMT
That's great! Thanks for making us all smile with a heavy dose of "OMG I am SO relived that I'm not tempted to even attempt to write a macro / bot". Steer clear of the temptation to write the "Buy all available loans" macro  |
|
ianj
Member of DD Central
Posts: 656
Likes: 520
|
Post by ianj on Dec 21, 2015 10:46:31 GMT
I imagine you were in quite a pickle until it got unwound. There's a tried and tested panacea to assist in such moments. It comes from north of the border, is amber in colour, and is usually stored in bottles! True, it only treats the symptoms rather than the cause, but it can instill a modicum of calmness until objective reasoning is restored.
|
|
|
|
Post by GSV3MIaC on Dec 21, 2015 10:50:28 GMT
Bot writing with no safety net (in this case SS provided one though) is rather fraught. At least on FC you can build a bot safe in the knowledge that it could not spend money if it didn't have any .. on SS it can spend money 'on tick', so if you want to experiment you really need to build your own 'sandbox' before you start.
But then again, a proper AI bot (as opposed to Real Stupidity bot) would read and parse the banner 'do you want to invest £x for a ..' which comes back, and check that £x was in the expected/sane range, and if not it'd fall on its sword rather than saying 'yep, sure, whatever'.
Could be worse .. you could try it on the US stock exchange, and wind up with men in black suits with handcuffs coming to visit, claiming you were manipulating the indices (no, that wasn't me ..). 8>.
Well done for fessing up though!!
Now I wonder if the other mega purchases we saw were also bot-driven (I guess bots will only have been written since the SM was bone dry, and have never been tested in a scenario where you actually CAN purchase more than you really want)
|
|
kermie
Member of DD Central
Posts: 691
Likes: 462
|
Post by kermie on Dec 21, 2015 11:56:23 GMT
In the stock market, when an pricing error is made by a human, most of the banks that participated in the transaction(s) agree to reverse it. Except Goldman Sachs of course. Such mistakes are usually known as "fat finger trouble". It's reassuring this this market is mature enough to provide the same kind of fix in similar situations. Wot? Out of the kindness of their little bankers' hearts? I find that hard to believe. Compare that with retail banks: if you make a mistake during an online transfer, then good luck getting that back...(OK, ok, that's entirely different and not a good comparison...) That said, perhaps pricing errors on the stock market are presumably quite obvious to spot - you might even imagine that some of the systems involve flag them up as outliers and result in a human intervention to validate it.
|
|
am
Posts: 1,495
Likes: 601
|
Post by am on Dec 21, 2015 14:26:52 GMT
Wot? Out of the kindness of their little bankers' hearts? Or because it might be them next time.
|
|
kermie
Member of DD Central
Posts: 691
Likes: 462
|
Post by kermie on Dec 21, 2015 14:33:56 GMT
Or because it might be them next time. Could be - honour amongst thieves, 'n all that 
|
|
|
|
Post by snappyfish on Dec 22, 2015 13:00:58 GMT
Is it normal for a new loan to take a long time to fill?
|
|
sam i am
Member of DD Central
Posts: 697
Likes: 555
|
Post by sam i am on Dec 22, 2015 13:14:16 GMT
Is it normal for a new loan to take a long time to fill? Yes, it can take a while for some larger loans to fill. PBLs 059, 060 and 061 needed 0.5% cashback as an incentive to speed up the process.
|
|
|
|
Post by snappyfish on Dec 22, 2015 22:43:23 GMT
£100,000.00 invested by someone, why does that encourage me. . . .
|
|
|
|
Post by spareafewcoppersguv on Dec 22, 2015 22:46:20 GMT
.....encourage you to do the same???
|
|
mikes1531
Member of DD Central
Posts: 6,453
Likes: 2,320
|
Post by mikes1531 on Dec 22, 2015 22:47:50 GMT
£100,000.00 invested by someone, why does that encourage me. . . . It might have been a fat-fingered mistake by someone who entered 100000 when they meant to enter 1000.00 
|
|
|
|
Post by wildlife2 on Dec 23, 2015 1:42:14 GMT
It looks like that £100,000 is back again. Midnight madness 
|
|
. I imagine you were in quite a pickle until it got unwound.
