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Re:A critique of the claim that passive investing is a bubble by all_blue_chucks on Thursday September 05, 2019 @01:32PM (#20888994)
Doesn't the "circuit breaker" process on the stock exchange exist for this scenario? To give people time to line up buyers when there is a sudden unexpected repricing?
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Re:A critique of the claim that passive investing is a bubble by asdf333 on Thursday September 05, 2019 @02:39PM (#20889563)
yes, possibly. but i think that may feed back into some weirdness for the index funds

"i'm supposed to sell 500m of this small stock but i only got to sell 300m before it was frozen out...now my basket of holdings is slightly off from the actual index...hopefully i can rectify it tomorrow..."

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