Earlier. There are two kinds of trading halt, the kind caused by some sort of computer malfunction and the kind where government stops trading because stocks are in free fall and its the only way to break the velocity of the decline. Trust me you want to be in the trading hall caused by the computer crash and the New York Stock Exchange and not the one with the stock market crash namely the indices that trade in china, but you wouldnt know it judging by todays horrendous action. The dow tumbling 261 points and the nasdaq tumbling 1. 75 . There were not one, but there were two marvels today. The first was that the New York Stock Exchange went down and, i dont know, nothing really happened. Trading got rerouted to other exchanges and as painful as it is to say it got to the market was as bad on the other exchanges as it would have been in the New York Stock Exchange. I can remember a time when the New York Stock Exchange was the only game in town and this outage would have caused widespr