Investors dive into "dark pools"

May 12 - Using "dark pools" to trade big blocks of stock without triggering ripples in the share price is booming in popularity. On Wall Street traders jockey to buy and sell shares of stock every day...but many of the big money trades are happening far away from the trading floor.

When pension funds and hedge funds want to sell or buy shares...usually thousands at a time...they prefer to do it anonymously....and usually.. on an electronic trading system. These so called "dark pools" are changing the face of trading but could systems designed to make trading more efficient have the opposite effect? Ruben Ramirez reports from New York.

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• dark
• pools
• trade
• share
• price

[mcgrawHNIC]

See "Quants: the alchemists of wall street".

it will give an insight to High Frequency Trading and how the financial market is sophisticated...

[Elesparto]

another great scam brought to you by the wall street con men...

[KLguy133]

So what is the price visiblity like ? Can clients view it or is it only the network operators ? And how is this margined ?

[lavkachudes]

third!!!!!

[godwar911]

not for me..

[ZachSwan3]

That seems like it would run much more smoothly than trading on the NYSE as well.

[4621bonghead]

i take the sex..

[vgagent93]

Fourth?

[ciorap008]

Second?

[EnragedSephiroth]

First?