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Stock Market-How circuit breakers protects?

April 19, 2013by Basavaraj Tonagatti

You might have noticed since a week how Gold and Silver are falling daily. This falling is sometimes around 6% to 9% in a day trade. During such turbulent bearish or bullish trends how markets maintain their demand and supply and protect investors? Circuit Breaker is the tool which answers all such concerns.

What is the need of circuit breakers?

To say in simple language it works as fuse to your electric system. When found heavy load then automatically disconnect. Same way when any stock or market falls drastically due to some bad news it creates such a havoc that even person who is confident about his portfolio start to sell. In the same way if we see some kind of bullish then stock or index will go high to such an extent that it can exhaust the liquidity of stocks. To prevent such a mad rush circuit breakers are used all over world. This halting of trading for specific time brings traders to think about their actions and the available options to them.

Usually such volatility occurs due to program trading, overvaluation, illiquidity and market crash. But in my view all are interlinked. So protect the investors usually stock market uses circuit breakers.

How many types of circuit breakers?

Mainly their are two types of circuit breakers. One is for specific stock and one for Index. Each stock or Index moves drastically over and below the specified limit then circuit breakers will come into effect to halt the trade for specified period to that particular stock or Index.

Below table gives you the idea about the circuit breaker applicable to BSE and NSE equity and equity derivative market.

Circuit Breakers

This circuit breaker system came into effect after the infamous stock market crash called “Black Monday” on October 19, 1987. World over market crashed around 20% to 45% in a single day.

I noticed during the current fall of silver that sometime buyers were nil (zero) but sellers were around 7000+. In such scenario person who enters into short sell will definitely benefit. But what will be the faith of the buyers? In such scenario I think circuit breakers will give a big relief to traders.

But do you think these circuit breakers works always? Sometimes market regulator fail to activate it. Recent example is on October 5th, 2012, when their was a sudden fall of around 800 points in NSE. Reason may be many like NSE blamed one broking firm for entering huge volume of non-algo market orders. I am giving you such an incidents to make you caution.

Category: Investment PlanningTag: Black Monday, Circuit Breakers

About Basavaraj Tonagatti

Basavaraj Tonagatti is the man behind this blog. He is SEBI Registered Investment Adviser who is practicing Fee-Only Financial Planning Process and also an Independent Certified Financial Planner (CFP), engaged in blogging since 7 years. BasuNivesh blog is ranked as one among India's Top 10 Personal Finance Blog. He is not associated with any Financial product/service provider. The purpose of this blog is to "Spread personal finance awareness and make them to take informed financial decisions." Please note that the views given in this Blog/Comments Section/Forum are clarifications meant for reference and guidance of the readers to explore further on the topics/queries raised and take informed decisions. These should not be construed as investment advice or legal opinion."

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  1. RupyaGyan

    April 28, 2013 at 8:45 AM

    Explained to the point. However no system is perfect and likewise the circuit breakers too function well under limited case scenario. Everyone has to exercise caution when trading and use their own wisdom to make decisions.

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    • Basavaraj Tonagatti

      April 28, 2013 at 12:33 PM

      RupyaGyan-Exactly, their are so many instances (recently around 6 month back I think) NSE was unable to answer when stock price of particular stock raised due to some broking firm’s algorithm order placement.

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