Former President Donald Trump threatened the NASDAQ on Friday after the stock exchange briefly halted trading on Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social.
I’m going to take a wild guess at one reason why preventing large, sudden price moves in a stock is a good thing: it prevents pump and dumps.
You can’t quickly pump a stock and then sell it off if there’s a control that stops the stock price from going way up in a hurry. And if you dump a stock, the price isn’t going to plummet instantly, offering some protection to your unwitting victims.
I’m going to take a wild guess at one reason why preventing large, sudden price moves in a stock is a good thing: it prevents pump and dumps.
You can’t quickly pump a stock and then sell it off if there’s a control that stops the stock price from going way up in a hurry. And if you dump a stock, the price isn’t going to plummet instantly, offering some protection to your unwitting victims.