For years, buyside traders have complained – quite fairly – that dark pool trading rules and activity are far too opaque. In response to this criticism and to the numerous regulatory actions taken ...

Dark pools are private exchange venues used primarily to facilitate large block trades between institutional investors. They are designed to prevent large orders from influencing market prices by ...

A ping, or a “blind ping”, defined as an Immediate or Cancel (IOC) order for a small quantity to find liquidity, has acquired a negative connotation. Pinging has been cited by some articles as a sign ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The operators of anonymous stock trading venues called 'dark pools' defended their existence on Friday, but conceded they could be more transparent after the U.S. Securities and ...