Thanks for breaking that down.
I think I need some of your coffee
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No worries, just adding to the above this isn’t crash related too.
At any point if you place a market order say pre-market and it gaps up significantly on open and you don’t have the funds it will place a second sell order to sell just enough to cover the funds you did have.
Unfortunately if this happens you’ll always lose out on the spread. Depending on the spread the wider it is the more would be lost. So in this case $2 on those 130 sold.
The only way to protect against this is either follow the pre-market action like a hawk.
Or place a limit order instead of a market.
Unfortunately once your initial order of 175 went off to be filled theres not much T212 can do about it.
It would be nice if they could implement a way to monitor pre-market action and give an alert on market orders placed before open when it could significantly gap up, but no broker I know of does this.