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  • Tracking the proposed new circuit breakers

    Although the detailed proposal has not been published yet,
    the SEC is proposing a temporary trading halt in any
    S&P500 stock that falls 10% or more in any five minute period.

    Some reports indicate a rise or fall of 10%.

    Based on those two possibilities,
    what is the best way (or any way) to continuously track the circuit breaker level(s) in QCharts?

    -alan
    Last edited by finpress2000; 05-20-2010, 08:38 PM.

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    No ideas from anybody?

    If this means the answer is "no", may I suggest
    that the Qcharts team please quickly
    add a "study" that will support this.

    Here's the rule:

    Temporary halt if the transaction price of the security moves ten percent or more from a price in the preceding five-minutes.

    So, what is needed are two calculations.

    A = (Price - High)/High, where High is High over the
    most recent 5 minutes.

    B = (Price - Low/Low, where Low is the Low over the
    most recent 5 minutes.

    If either B >= 10% or A <= -10%, there will be a halt.
    (>= means greater than or equal, etc.)

    So, we need a study that will show a running calculation
    of A and B -- that way you can tell how close we
    are to a halt.

    Personally, I don't use the studies beyond the Volume,
    but this new one would be quite useful. It looks
    somewhat similar to the ROC, as far as I can tell, but
    the ROC looks not quite right for various reasons.

    The new circuit breakers go into effect tomorrow!
    http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/bats/2010/34-62252.pdf
    Last edited by finpress2000; 06-10-2010, 10:09 AM.

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