A Taiwan stock trader mistakenly bought $251 million worth of shares with a mis-stroke of her computer, meaning her company is looking at a paper loss of more than $12 million and she is looking for a new job.

The trader with Fubon Securities made a typo while filling in a small order from Merrill Lynch on Monday, creating confusion when many small firms inexplicably surged past the 7 percent trading limit.

“Something like this is difficult to explain to superiors,” a Fubon executive said on Tuesday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8382753/

This gal would have gone to jail in the US.

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The company definitely has poor control on how transactions are done. How can just a click lead to such a loss..Cant they have contraints? I dont think it can happen in the States.

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