- Two days ago I inadvertently entered an order to purchase 65,000,000 bu of July corn futures. Archived Message
Posted by Tuscy
on May 23, 2025, 8:29:37, in reply to "My closest analogue"
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That's about $292,000,000. Fortunately it got caught before it was executed. A 1 cent swing the wrong way would've cost us $650,000. Of course, the other way and we would've pocketed it but I don't think those are the types of risks I'm authorized to make. We all had a good laugh.  Previous Messagemessing up the close of a multibillion dollar Treasury purchase operation with the 30 largest banks in the world. Luckily that same colleague you had knew how to fix it in about 90 seconds, that didn't stop the trading phones lighting up. Previous MessageI got in around 7 and started the morning routine of starting our Junipero Gin distillation. I prep the botanicals, charge the still, get the boiler and condenser up and running and send steam over to the still. About 10 minutes later I get the industrial EEEEEEEEENT!!! EEEEEEEEENT!! EEEEEEEEENT!! alarm from the boiler. This is a "run don't walk" type of situation. At this point in time I'm not sure if the boiler is over pressure or over temp, but I slam on the emergency stop and start looking over everything. My coworker walks in about 10 minutes later and he and I go over the entire setup procedure together and everything seems right. We refire the boiler and everything seems to be running fine now. We've been down for a few days due to schedule and events and best we can guess is that we had a vapor lock somewhere between the hot water pump and the boiler and starved the boiler of water, causing it to overheat and throw the boiler alarm. HFS though...nothing wakes you up like that alarm. I already hate boilers to start with as if anything at work is going to kill me, it's going to be that thing...but damn. I'm still a little on edge. |
- IlliniSax05 May 23, 2025, 8:52:00