{"id":26493,"date":"2026-04-04T07:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=26493"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:14:35","slug":"what-are-the-common-reasons-a-stock-is-flagged-by-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/article\/what-are-the-common-reasons-a-stock-is-flagged-by-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the common reasons a stock is flagged by surveillance?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Exchanges look at a combination of factors when deciding to flag a stock. The most common reasons are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Unusual price movement<\/strong> &#8211; The stock price rises or falls sharply over a short period with no news, results, or business development to explain it<\/li><li><strong>High trading volume without reason<\/strong> &#8211; A sudden spike in the number of shares being bought and sold, especially in stocks that are normally low-volume<\/li><li><strong>Price-to-earnings mismatch<\/strong> &#8211; The stock is trading at a price that makes no sense relative to the company&#8217;s actual financial performance<\/li><li><strong>Concentrated trading<\/strong> &#8211; A small number of people or entities are responsible for most of the trading activity in the stock<\/li><li><strong>Low float with high volatility<\/strong> &#8211; The company has very few shares available for public trading, making it easy to manipulate the price<\/li><li><strong>Weak fundamentals<\/strong> &#8211; The company has poor financials but the stock is trading at unusually high levels<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Any one of these factors, or a combination of them, can trigger the exchange to place a stock under surveillance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht_kb_category":[2881],"ht_kb_tag":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26495,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26493\/revisions\/26495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=26493"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=26493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}