Beats Me1 Sep 2020 17:29
New here, and only posting because I like mysteries. I'm a long-term holder and today after some online buying and selling of other stocks I decided to soack up a spare couple of hundred by adding 8,000 MWG at ask. My order went through as a fill at 7,999 shares. So now if the takeover completes I'm effectively holding nine dead shares, and somebody is holding an odd one. Financially, no big deal at all. But who do that, and why?