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by verganileonardo 1975 days ago
As far as I know, they were automatic handbrakes based on excessive volatility. A feature designed to prevent chaos and people from over buying/selling due to panic.
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cwkoss 1975 days ago
Brokerages preventing users from buying certain stocks is clearly manual, and fairly unprecedented afaik
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verganileonardo 1975 days ago
Yes. Both things happened. I was specifically talking about halting trade multiple times during the day.
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