What is ‘Daily Trading Limit’
The maximum gain or loss on a derivative contract, such as options and futures contracts, that is allowed in any one trading session. The limits are imposed by the exchanges in order to protect against extreme volatility or manipulation within the markets.
Explaining ‘Daily Trading Limit’
When daily trading limits have been reached, it is said to be a “locked market”, and trading will halt for any trades that break the threshold or trading will close for that particular security.
Further Reading
- Daily price limits and stock price behavior: evidence from the Taiwan stock exchange – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]
- Using an artificial financial market for assessing the impact of Tobin-like transaction taxes – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]
- The magnet effect of price limits: evidence from high-frequency data on Taiwan Stock Exchange – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]
- Heterogeneous agent models in economics and finance – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]
- Overnight news and daily equity trading risk limits – academic.oup.com [PDF]
- Price limits and stock market volatility in Taiwan – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]
- Korean stock prices under price limits: Variance ratio tests of random walks – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
- Relative performance of trading halts and price limits: Evidence from the Spanish Stock Exchange – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]
- The limiting extremal behaviour of speculative returns: an analysis of intra-daily data from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
