Eli5: Why do they halt trading for volatile stocks?

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Why not just let them drop to zero? Doesn’t this interfere with the market?

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auto sell algorithms, top comment is correct, but itll be more than a person seeing red and panic selling. That initital sell off will trigger auto trade bots to sell, and itll be a chain effect til everything is wiped out

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