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Hilarious that someone actually accidentally made real money doing this...

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So the story goes.... A guy thinks he is trading on a demo account, but is actually trading on a live account and somehow accidentally gets a 5 billion dollar position open. He ends up make a 12 million dollar profit, but now the trading company says he violated his margin limits, etc, and now the whole thing is in court. Very crazy!

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-21/novice-daytrader-mistakenly-trades-live-account-builds-5bn-futures-position-makes

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He told Reuters that he only realised he was trading “live” when he saw he had reached losses amounting to a million euros.

“I thought that it was the end of my life. I thought how am I going to pay back all that?”, Traore said, adding it was then that he decided to try to trade his way back to a profit.

Having succeeded, Traore stayed at home the next day.

- source Reuters.

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