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Kel2on Mar 04, 2005 11:31am
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RE: Definition of Cross Trade - Investopedia
RE: Definition of Cross Trade - InvestopediaThat would be an off the floor transaction and has nothing to do with the crosses that were done yesterday.
Any trade that has the same firm on both sides is commonly referred to as a cross.
Yesteday's trade by Canacord, due to the size of the trade, would be assumed to be institutional in nature. Nothing illegal about it at all. The job of an institutional trader, if given a large sell or buy order, is to try and find the other side of the trade. That's how they make their commission. If they can't find a buyer or seller to deal with the order they feed the sell in to the market or gradually accumulate if it is a buy order.