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BUSINESS, Page 84Business NotesWALL STREETTaking the Pledge, Again
Program trading is the habit that Wall Street loves to kick --
temporarily. Faced with angry investors and the threat of a
congressional crackdown, the New York Stock Exchange last week put
new limits on such computerized trading. Critics blame this
practice, in which speculators simultaneously buy and sell blocks
of securities, for recent stock-market gyrations. Among the Big
Board's reforms: a 15-minute halt in program trading when the Dow
Jones average drops 30 points, and a 30-minute delay when the index
falls 75 points.
The exchange unveiled its policy after most major Wall Street
firms had backed away from program trading. But skeptics noted that
brokerages had scrapped program trading following the 1987 crash,
then resumed the lucrative practice as soon as the market became
less volatile.