The quote wasn't obvsiouly wrong tho.
Last year, there was a special dividend made by Whitbread of around 135p. see whitbreads website. Cityindex aren't saying there was a mistake in the quote, but that they expected Whitbread to make the dividend this year (sometime in May) but realised it...
city index were quoting for june whitbread somewhere around 1070 a few weeks ago, so i went long, current price being around 1200p
the next day, around 4:45pm I got a call saying that the quote had been a mistake and that the opening price had been corrected to 1210 or something.
after...