limit up

limit up definition - finance
The maximum price movement allowed for a futures market during one trading session. When the limit is reached, trading halts unless a sell order comes into the market to change the marketÂ’s direction. See also limit down.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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