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Now dark about dark pools and see how far up we really are

• smabie 6y ago
  In your opinion, what is sketchy about dark pools. I have a couple answers (pertaining to marketing, but not operations of the pool), but am curious about what the popular perception of these pools are.
  • anonymouse008 6y ago
    Marketing? I'm very curious to see what you say. Well for me, it's taking information flow off of the table. Not having access to the trade at execution (and how long it was an order) puts me at a disadvantage. I'd take the market impacts to have greater transparency.
    • smabie 6y ago
      Dark pools have deceptive marketing imo: to investors they advertise how no HFT ppl will be around to eat you alive while simultaneously giving a totally different presentation describing all the benefits of the dark pool to the HFT firms.