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The trades themselves (time and sales) are available to paid subscribers of various data services, but not identities. Only insiders/significant holders are req
by ddeck 5y ago
The trades themselves (time and sales) are available to paid subscribers of various data services, but not identities. Only insiders/significant holders are required to disclose their identity. A search for "historical tick data" will yield plenty of results.
Much like everything in finance there is a gatekeeper, and they seek to extract every dollar they can.
https://www.ctaplan.com/index https://www.ctaplan.com/index
https://www.ctaplan.com/publicdocs/ctaplan/notifications/trader-update/Schedule%20Of%20Market%20Data%20Charges%20-%20January%201,%202015.pdf https://www.ctaplan.com/publicdocs/ctaplan/notifications/tra...
- chii 5y ago> various data services but where do these data services get their data from? Does the exchange itself sell this data wholesale?
- ChainOfFools 5y agoyes, along with an even more lucrative stream called "order flow" which is practically an order book crystal ball that allows HFT shops to front run retail traders (and one another) some crypto exchanges also sell order flow but they don't really need to, as its far more profitable to front run their own users, whose entire account activity including sidelines and account balance transfers, is completely exposed to exchange insiders, who can trade against it. "oh look, whale user #4457 just transferred $100k of $COIN into their account. I wonder what they plan to do next?"