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Failed similarly a couple of years ago. I put in an order for Afterpay shares at a fixed price before going out for the day, they never came down to my price (only 2c difference) so there was no purchase and when they jumped the next day I decided I would wait for them to come down - they didn't . I calculated the other day that not simply putting in my order for market price (a measly 2c more) cost me $600,000 on today's APT price
(mind you, thank to Covid, they dropped to $8 and are now $114 - and I still missed the boat)