I don't know a lot about this either, and my understanding might be incorrect, but the comparison seems very different to me. These dark pools are full of slo

I don't know a lot about this either, and my understanding might be incorrect, but the comparison seems very different to me. These dark pools are full of slow moving, like minded institutional investors that tend to buy and sell the same thing at the same time. In this scenario, my understanding is that HFTs are providing them access to a market that is not as homogenous (the public market).