Ask HN: We've all been there, what was your big stuff up?

Re:Ask HN: We've all been there, what was your big stuff up? by gumby on Thursday February 02, 2017 @12:54PM (#13552711)

> until ~43 tonnes of sugar arrived on 6 trucks the following day.

I read about this happening to a novice commodities trader in London: several barges full of coal supposedly showed up at their building at Canary Wharf.

(Oh drat, I looked it up and the only reference I could find was on DailyWTF so...maybe not so true: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery )

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Re:Ask HN: We've all been there, what was your big stuff up? by brianpgordon on Thursday February 02, 2017 @07:27PM (#13556483)

That's a classic apocryphal horror story in futures trading - though it's possible that it really happened to someone at some point

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