DOCN
DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc.
stock NYSE

Fuck bought some $PENG calls, $70 Strike 7/17, earnings today. Same boat as DOCN and HPE which both flew after hours during their earnings. Expecting a beat and raise

Courtesy of Cad Gipity:
This screenshot actually contains a very important clue:
**Trading Type: Over the counter (OTC)**
That means the execution was not necessarily triggered by a trade printed on the primary exchange chart you're looking at.
Here's what may have happened:
* The chart shows the **last traded price** on the exchange.
* Your stop was triggered by a **bid quote** or execution available in the OTC market.
* If liquidity was thin at the open, the best bid may briefly have been far below the displayed exchange price.
* A stop order can trigger on that bid even if the chart never prints that level.
Now, whether a **$10 gap (232 → 222)** is reasonable is another question.
For a relatively thin stock like VSEC, especially near the open, it's unusual but not impossible.
What makes me sympathetic to the Reddit poster is that:
* 4% below the day's low is large.
* The execution occurred at **15:31** (which should be 09:31 ET, one minute after the US open).
* The open is exactly when spreads and quote dislocations are most common.
The first thing I'd want to see is the **trade confirmation PDF** (the button visible in the screenshot).
That document often contains:
* execution venue,
* execution time down to milliseconds,
* execution type,
* and sometimes whether it was triggered by a quote or trade.
If Trading 212 can show a genuine OTC bid at $223.70 at 09:31:xx, then the execution is probably legitimate even if the chart never touched it.
If they cannot identify the quote or venue, then the customer has a stronger complaint.
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What's interesting is that this looks very similar to your DOCN case:
* chart low above stop execution,
* execution around market open,
* Trading 212 involved.
One example proves nothing, but if you repeatedly see stop executions **below visible lows**, I'd start suspecting one of three things:
1. OTC quote-triggered stops.
2. Opening-auction dislocations.
3. A peculiarity of how Trading 212 routes stop orders.
In your shoes, I'd ask Trading 212 a very specific question:
> "Was my stop triggered by a trade print or by a bid quote? Please provide the venue and timestamp."
That question is much harder for support to sidestep than "why was my stop triggered?"
And if they answer "quote", then you've learned something important: the chart you're watching is not the data source that determines whether your stop activates.