Dark pools recently have been subject of many headlines, mostly due to alleged illegal activities from the banks that operate them. For instance, Barclays is said have given high-frequency traders ...

For years, buyside traders have complained – quite fairly – that dark pool trading rules and activity are far too opaque. In response to this criticism and to the numerous regulatory actions taken ...

Dark pools are private exchange venues used primarily to facilitate large block trades between institutional investors. They are designed to prevent large orders from influencing market prices by ...

There’s a new type of toxic avenger among the dark pool trading crowd. The Barclays LX dark liquidity crossing network has introduced what it calls a “toxicity framework” — a way of policing an ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Michael is a former senior editor of investing and trading products for ...