Nifty 14500 CE trade which made day low price of 0.15 and day high price of 2139, due to erroneous order by a broker who lost 250 crores. Some ppl claim few others brokers made 50 to 75 crores profits. But what really happened? Here's the tick data analysis that shows true info🧵

Yesterday being a weekly expiry market was so calm, not making any major movements. Nifty was trading around 16500 but there was a freak trade happened with deep In the money option 14500 CE. It was trading around 2000 levels, usually the liquidity will be very shallow with ITM

it was hovering around 2000 to 2100 levels but suddenly around 2:30 pm, the price of the option went as low as 0.15 paise. Here's the tick data price chart of 14500 CE option strike

What's really interesting about this sudden move is, usually when a freak trade happens it last for few seconds and instantly get back to its average traded price levels. But in this case, there were many buy trades executed at a very low price.

Obviously this a fat finger error trade, where a broker based out of Kolkatta, erroneously placed sell order for 14500 CE instead of 16500 CE.