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To: TigerLikesRooster

What’s a “dark pool”??


4 posted on 10/20/2009 10:25:53 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius
Ah... nevermind. I looked it up. I was aware of the practice but haven't heard that name for it before.

"A method through which which large Wall Street brokerage houses make secret deals away from the markets, in order to make trades that will not affect the price of large blocks of stock." Seems to me that the invisibility of those trades is an essential and useful thing, and to NOT allow them or to expose them would be seriously disruptive to the market.

6 posted on 10/20/2009 10:30:17 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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