Somehow, Forbes always seems to come out in favor of the stupidest market-rigging schemes imaginable.
Dark pools are nothing more or less than a way for the “big guys” trying to escape the retail investors and day traders who spot large blocks of stock being moved and act accordingly. By their very definition, they’re NOT providing any improvement to the retail investor - if they were, then why are the big guys trying to hide their trades from the retail investor?
But dark pools have evolved to give retail investors and smaller orders a crack at price improvement and better liquidity.
I wonder why they try to pull in retail investors now. A way to generate more revenue? It seems they want to set up dark pools for big boys on the one hand and ones for small guys on the other side. Is this PR gimmick? That is, they want to say, "We also work for small guys, too." Curious.