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I guess someone wanted to buy 6 stocks, pressed wrong and made -6, and the program did not have any data checks and sent it to the market.

Great way to sell actions at the price you like :)

Well, they're going to have a lot of explaining to do when a dump truck shows up outside of their house with 4,294,967,290 stock certificates.

Like: What happened to the street when a dump truck loaded with 8500 tons of paper drove down it leaving deep trenches through the pavement.

4,294,967,290 at one sheet of paper per share is about one entire freight train of box cars. Depending on the paper.

thanks, that makes sense

How is that an explanation? Do you think someone wanted to buy 4 billion stocks?