Price band (discovery bounds)
A price band, or discovery bound, is the limit a venue puts on how far a perpetual can move from its last reference price while the real market is shut. It stops a thin weekend book from printing wild prices and makes the Monday open a gap the band has to absorb; Module 3.
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