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> Based on the rules it cannot drop _more_ than 20% in a day

Asset pricing is not continuous. A single trade can take pricing from -18% to -X%, with X having any value between infinity and -100.

The breaker triggers at -20%. If the market crosses at -18% and then trades -25%, that trade will cross and then trip the breaker.




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