FINRA Investor Alert: What You Need to Know about Halts, Suspensions and Other Interruptions to Trading (with Lofchie Comment)

FINRA announced the issuance of a new Investor Alert to explain how, when and why interruptions in trading occur. The alert further discusses both what brokers are required to do and what investors should do in these situations.

Lofchie Comment: The alert provides a nice summary of relevant regulations requiring trading halts in different situations; e.g., trading suspensions when there is an information problem as to a company, pauses when a single stock is volatile, market wide circuit breakers, and so on.

View investor alert here (links externally to FINRA website).See also: FINRA Press Release.