Inside traders who submit large blocks via darkpool reduce their chances of getting caught. If enough insiders collude and decide to anonymously, but simultaneo

Inside traders who submit large blocks via darkpool reduce their chances of getting caught. If enough insiders collude and decide to anonymously, but simultaneously act on a certain company via darkpool trading, the chances of getting caught are further reduced. (Mapping patterns among public info is presumably much easier than mapping patterns among cloaked private info). What is interesting and kind of baffling is that this fine was waged at all, in light (cough) of the supposed goal of the SEC to "strengthen regulation of dark pools" proposed back in 2009: http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2009/2009-223-fs.htm http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2009/2009-223-fs.htm I would be willing to bet that dark pool trading, which tripled in volume between 2002 - 2009 has probably 10Xed between 2002 and 2012, and might even be one of the underlying causes of the much hyped meltdown of the markets right around that time.