1492 terms

Glossary

Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.

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Suspension of trading

Trading & orders

An exchange halting trading in a security — for compliance failures, pending a scheme, or awaiting clarification — with no fixed guarantee that it will be revoked.

In plain terms

The market ends and the ownership does not. The shares stay in your demat account and there is no way to sell them until it is lifted.

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Trading halt

Trading & orders

A suspension of trading in a security or the whole market.

In plain terms

A price you can see on a chart is not necessarily a price you could have traded.

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