October 18, 2021
The ability to arbitrarily halt trading in securities poses a great risk to the integrity of the stock exchange.
Mechanisms of trading halts already exist granting additional halting powers to an individual, or select few individuals based solely on their opinion is tyrannical. You know this is unhealthy for retail traders - to dress it up as protecting them is duplicitous and dishonorable.
Enforce the rules already in place and you would never need such a device to \"protect public interest\".