Fat-finger trade

烏龍指(wu long zhi)

"Fat-finger trade", which refers to inputting error in trade, was suspected at the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Aug 16. On that fateful day, the Shanghai Composite Index surged by as much as 5.6 percent within minutes with some large cap stocks, such as PetroChina and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, shot up by the maximum one-day limit of 10 percent.