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What is price banding?

Banding keeps markets in an orderly range.

Price banding is an exchange mechanism that subjects all orders to price validation and rejects orders outside the given band to maintain orderly markets. Bands are calculated dynamically by each exchange for each product based on the last price, plus or minus a fixed band value. Thus, if markets quickly move in one direction, the price bands dynamically adjust to accommodate new trading ranges.