Penny stocks halting 5+ times in a day
When a penny stock has 5+ halts in a day, another halt fires with 89% probability based on 5,951 historical matches.
In plain English
Sub-$2 stocks that halt repeatedly within a single trading day are the most predictable cascade pattern in the market. By the fifth halt of the day, the stock has demonstrated it cannot stabilize within the LULD bands, and the same forces (heavy retail flow, low float, momentum traders piling in) keep pushing it through fresh limits. Our pattern library shows this is the highest-confidence cascade signal we track — when a penny stock crosses the H5 threshold, it almost always halts again before the close. The same-direction continuation rate is lower than the next-halt rate because price discovery on extended halt sequences becomes erratic, but the next-halt event itself is near-certain.
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Related patterns
- Large-cap stocks ($10+) cascading DOWN on extreme first haltsWhen a $10+ stock has an extreme down halt and the next halt fires, it continues DOWN 70% of the time based on 443 historical matches.
- Halts firing within an hour of breaking newsWhen breaking news fires within 30 minutes of a halt, another halt is 87% likely to fire — based on 68 historical breaking-news halt matches.
- First halts with 30%+ down gapsStocks with extreme down halts (30%+ gap) continue in the same direction 70% of the time when they cascade — based on 236 historical matches.
- Tier A/B second halts and the third-halt continuationOnce a stock has had a second halt, the third halt continues in the same direction 61% of the time — calibrated edge over coinflip across 3,043 historical matches.
Aggregates recomputed nightly from the HaltPredict pattern library — currently 71,000+ historical halts. Hero pattern definitions live in pattern_groups.