The weirdest trading day I ever had happened on a Tuesday in Orlando

I was shorting oil futures and woke up to find out some pipeline in Texas had a squirrel-related outage that jacked prices 4%. Has anyone else had a trade go sideways because of something totally random like an animal?

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dakotaknight4mo ago

Man, a squirrel taking out a pipeline is peak market randomness... had a similar thing happen when a swarm of bees delayed a soy shipment from Brazil and I was sitting on short calls.

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rivera.keith4mo ago

A swarm of BEES?

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