Fat Finger Error
Categories: Regulations, Trading
The most frequent cause of nose-picking injuries.
Also the name for a mistake in entering information with a keyboard (or smartphone). Basically, it implies that your fingers are too thick to accurately key in information.
In a financial setting, a fat finger error most often comes up in entering trades. Like...you mean to buy 10,000 shares and end up buying 100,000. Oops. It’s silly to think of a typo costing millions of dollars, but it happens.
Next time: less salt in the diet.