SEC trading suspensions per month

How this was calculated

Counted from the SEC’s own trading suspensions index, in full, back to 1995. Each suspension order is counted once on its release date. Suspensions are stored separately from the case library because they are not enforcement actions and allege nothing.

What this chart does not show

• A trading suspension is not an enforcement action and is not an accusation against any person.
• Suspensions are frequently issued in batches covering many issuers, so monthly counts are lumpy by construction.
• The chart shows the most recent months for which we hold any suspension at all, not the last 48 calendar months. Because the Commission has ordered very few suspensions since 2021, those months are spread over a longer period than the count suggests.
• The downloadable CSV covers 1995 to the present, taken from the Commission’s own index. Counts before about 2008 are far lower than later years. That reflects a genuinely smaller programme — the batch suspensions of shell companies began in earnest in 2012 — but we cannot confirm the Commission’s online index is complete for its earliest years, so treat pre-2008 figures as a floor rather than a total.

Source

Computed from this site's own case library, which is compiled from the primary releases of the issuing regulators. Regenerated on every build, so the figures move as cases are added.

Regenerated 2026-09-23

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Free to reuse with attribution. The chart, the underlying figures and the CSV below are published under CC BY 4.0. Credit Market Manipulation and link back to this page. The regulator releases the data is compiled from are separately available at their own sources, listed on our sources page.