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Hi Drew,

it would help if you told us, which shares you're talking about. And when you tried to sell them.

Two possible reasons come immediately to mind:

1. you tried to sell after hours;

2. trading in the shares was halted, maybe even suspended


A variation on theme 2: The share might have been placed in Pre-Open for about ten minutes, pending an announcement, which in other systems comes as "Notice Received". Whenever a company makes a price-sensitive announcement, such as a profit guidance, financial report, or similar, ASX puts the shares in a temporary Pre-Open, so traders have the opportunity to digest the news and make up their mind whether they want to buy, sell, or hold.


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