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Picture 10 elephants trying to get through a 4-foot doorway, all at once.

If the volume of sell orders gets too high, the exchange shuts down trading in that stock.

If it's high but not "too high" then the price they all get will be significantly less than what they expected.

> If it's high but not "too high" then the price they all get will be significantly less than what they expected.

My question is: how do you know that?

A sell order has to match a buy order. Apparently, on the 27th, a huge number of people wanted to sell 232,316,600 shares when it was 129. There weren't that many buyers at that price, so they got out somewhere between 129 and 97.

Date Open High Low Close* Adj Close* Volume

Oct 28, 2022 99.58 100.85 97.51 99.20 99.20 95,728,200

Oct 27, 2022 97.98 102.50 96.38 97.94 97.94 232,316,600

Oct 26, 2022 131.68 135.55 128.53 129.82 129.82 82,791,500

Oct 25, 2022 130.88 138.35 130.59 137.51 137.51 38,433,200

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