RE:RE:Anonymous AKA dark money . all sounds unethical to me, but apparently legal but maybe there is a lot of good stuff happening with anonymous investors....I am pretty sure we will start seeing big stuff happening really soon - imho
Anonymous trading is primarily used to avoid tipping off the market of a pending action, which could lead to front-running behavior or jockeying for the best position in an order book.
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in fact, dark pools are legal and fully regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Dark pools allow traders to make block trades without having to publicize the buy/sell price or the number of shares traded to the public. This means trades are done anonymously and don't give clues to other traders.
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Dark pools are run by private brokerages which operate under fewer regulatory and public disclosure requirements than public exchanges.