Trading Curbs

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Following a fairly volatile few moments on the Dow this afternoon - IG Index's price spiked down to a massive low of 8780 on my screen before they suspended trading - by the time I'd gone to close my short, however, it was back to 9080 - literally 3 or 4 seconds for those of you who didn't see it.... I had a quick look into the trading curbs / circuit breakers scene in case anyone is interested, as we had a brief chat about it in the chatroom, whilst I was imagining some horrendous terrorist attack...

Here are some useful links:

http://www.programtrading.com/curbs.htm

http://www.allstocks.com/html/trading_curbs.html

http://www.vernal.com/aug21/fr.financialfocus.html