Upper / lower circuit on Zerodha trading

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When a stock on Zerodha hits upper or lower circuit (the day’s price band):

Upper circuit: Price cannot go higher. New buy orders queue but don’t execute; sellers can still sell to existing queued buys.
Lower circuit: Price cannot go lower. New sell orders queue but don’t execute; buyers can still buy from existing queued sells.

Stuck at circuit

A scrip locked at circuit:

For more on the framework, see Circuit filters NSE BSE .