A daily price limit forbids orders and trades at prices further than a fixed percentage (or amount) from a reference price, usually the previous close. A share at its upper limit is limit-up: buy orders queue at the limit price and trade only if someone sells there.
Ejemplos
Example 12.4 (Falls take longer)
With a rise of 50% needs days, four of them locked. A fall of 50% needs days, six locked: for six days holders who want to sell cannot, at any price. A fund that promises its own investors daily liquidity and holds such shares has a problem that no risk model built on daily returns will have measured (Figure 12.1).