The difference with stocks is you don't have a time limit forcing you to take a loss. With options closer to expiry the delta can be obliterated overnight making your position worthless, even if its just a temporary downturn. So you might be out 8k over night on a dip that barely moves the needle on your stock position, which recovers anyway.
First 0 dte trade I took was 100 long. I was up 8k in 5 minutes trying to sell but the sell order was throwing errors. I don't even know if I was entering it wrong or what the problem was...I ended up wasting time having to call in. (I was new to the platform) I ended up closing for a 5k profit...never been so pissed at making 5k. Anyway I swear 50% of my losses come from clerical errors not trading errors. I should also include gains because my first big win (70k) came from placing a buy order for 5000 thinking it was $5000 not shares.
Oh, that will frustrate the hell out of him! He blocked me, as well, but I took a different approach.
I get the fat fingering mishaps,but the second half of your story is a bit of a stretch... You thought you were filled purchasing $5000 worth of stock.which is a tiny notional,yet accidentally bought 5000 shares which must have been apx 700k-1.5 mil worth of stock as you made 70k on the trade... Your broker didnt notice it,you didnt notice it? On a million notional,you sat back and rode the stock up 7%?? I call BULLSHIT
I call it falling backwards into profits I call it The stock was about $5. I averaged down as the price dropped until I had about 15k shares. My rationale was that the company would rebound and return to its highs someday. A couple weeks later I woke up to a 70k profit because of a hostile take over I was so dumb, that I was almost disappointed that I didn't get to ride the stock back up to its highs lol. This is why I say, sometimes you can be too smart to make money in stocks.