Список проголосовавших за комментарий "т.к. на ФТ подписки нет нашел вот<br/> <p>Day traders can do the darndest things.</p><p>This week has provided the tale of a huge demo-trading platform mixup, and it’s on a par with the story of the guy who launched a GoFundMe drive after a short bet went horribly wrong.</p><p>Harouna Traoré was making trades with Valbury Capital last summer — on a try-out version of the British brokerage’s platform, he thought. But the French day trader discovered that in fact, he had been placing actual orders worth 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion), according to a Financial Times report.</p><p>Traoré, who opened an account with $23,000, found himself in the hole by more than $1 million. But he managed to turn that real loss into an actual profit of more than €10 million ($12 million), as he built up a $5 billion position in U.S. stock futures, the FT report on Thursday said.</p><p>Yet Traoré is not necessarily on easy street after his successful bets. Instead, he is locked in a legal battle with Valbury over the roughly $12 million gain — an amount about equal to the U.K.-based brokerage’s entire annual revenue.</p><p>Valbury told him it had treated the trades as an error because Traoré had thought he was using a demo platform. The brokerage also told him that he had exceeded his trading limits, according to court filings that the FT examined.</p>"