💸 “Why You Always Buy at ₹201.05 Instead of ₹200”

Welcome to the Decimal Trap, Where Retail Gets Outbid Every. Single. Time.

At a Glance

You placed a buy order at ₹200. So did 94 other retail bros. Then some bot placed an order at ₹200.05 — and got the trade. You? You’re left wondering why your order never hit. Welcome to the Decimal Trap, where algorithms and smart traders jump the queue by throwing spare change at the system — and walk away with your lunch.

🎮 The Setup: One Paisa to Rule Them All

Imagine this:

• You place a limit buy order for Reliance at ₹2,500.00.
• Volume: 1,000 shares. You’re feeling good.
• You’re on the top of the order book. Right?

Wrong.

At 9:16 AM, someone places an order for ₹2,500.05.
Your order just got demoted.

👊 That one paise? That’s not stupidity. That’s precision warfare.

🧠 How The Decimal Trap Works

Stock exchanges use a price-time priority system:

1. Best price wins
2. If price is same → whoever came first wins

But… what if I just beat your price by 5 paise?
Boom. I go first. Even if I came 3 minutes late.

That’s called stepping ahead. And algos do