Market Discussions

Recently I made a mistake that cost me almost 50mil. I was setting up a sell order and entered wrong first digit. The price was something like 2x xxx xxx isk, and I entered 1x xxx xxx isk, clicked sell - and it was gone immediately, sold to bid orders at a drastically reduced price :( No time at all to correct the mistake.
Lesson learned, but I have a question if I set up a buy order and enter an extra zero by mistake - will it automatically get filled out from the lowest sell order with the seller getting the increased price? If instead of 100mil I enter 1000mil, will he get 1000mil and not his sell order price, granted I have that much ISK?

Yeah it will automatically sell for the highest price available in the station so you would pay the 1000m

Advise: always, without exception, look at the little +/- price percentage indicator in green or red bold digits. It must give you low numbers like +5,61% or -0,13%. If it says something like +999,66%, stop what you are doing.

It sounds silly, but glancing at that indicator is much less of a strain to your mind as double-checking your precise entry, because for that indicator it doesn't matter if the digits are 2 or 3 or 8, as long as they're not close to or above 100. Thereby you can have your entry double-checked almost subconsciously when doing a number of orders or order adjustments.

As long as you haven't turned off the warning, you will have to click a confirmation box before buying or selling outside of 50-200% of regional average price.

I really hated that when I was manipulating the market on Incognito Process decryptors just before the Procurer was introduced. I pushed the regional price up to about 300% of the usual and had a monopoly, but anyone buying from me got a warning first.