Dark Pool Clues

🕵️‍♂️ What Are Dark Pools and Why They Matter

• Dark pools are private trading venues (including internalizers) where large blocks of shares are bought or sold anonymously.
• These trades don’t appear on lit exchanges (like NYSE or NASDAQ) until after execution, and sometimes not at all if internalized by market makers.
• They’re used to minimize market impact, especially during volatile periods or when institutions want stealth accumulation.

📊 Clues That Dark Pool Activity May Be High

While exact volumes aren’t disclosed in real time, here are some signs that dark pool buy orders may be dominating:

• Price Flatlining After a Sell-Off: If the stock drops sharply and then stabilizes without bouncing, it may indicate buying interest is being absorbed off-exchange, preventing visible upward pressure.
• Low Lit Exchange Volume vs. High Off-Exchange Volume: You can check FINRA’s ATS (Alternative Trading System) Transparency Data or Rule 605/606 reports from brokers to compare dark pool vs. lit exchange activity.
• Lack of Bid Support on the Tape: If the Level 2 order book shows thin bids but the price doesn’t drop further, it may suggest hidden liquidity is supporting the price.

which firms would be in charge of algos that can flatline the price like that? And would it be them using internalizers to absorb buy orders?

Firms like Citadel Securities, Virtu Financial, and Jane Street are among the most prominent players using algorithms and internalizers that can absorb buy orders and influence price behavior—including flatlining after a sell-off. Yes, internalization is often used to quietly absorb retail order flow without impacting public exchange prices.

Here’s how it works and who’s involved:

🧠 Who Controls These Algorithms?

The firms most associated with high-frequency trading (HFT), internalization, and algorithmic price control include:

• Citadel Securities: One of the largest market makers in the U.S., handling a massive share of retail order flow through internalization. Known for sophisticated algorithms that manage liquidity and price stability.
• Virtu Financial: Another major HFT firm that uses internalizers and dark pool access to execute trades with minimal market impact.
• Jane Street: A global trading firm active in equities, ETFs, and options, often using proprietary algorithms to manage order flow and pricing.
• Two Sigma, Jump Trading, Hudson River Trading: These firms also deploy advanced algorithms and may act as internalizers depending on their broker-dealer relationships.

🏦 What Is Internalization?

• Internalization means a broker routes your order to a firm (often a market maker) that fills it from its own inventory rather than sending it to a public exchange.
• This allows the firm to absorb buy/sell orders without moving the public price, especially in low-volume or after-hours trading.
• Internalizers often promise “price improvement”—executing trades at slightly better prices than the best available on lit exchanges—but this can also mask true demand or supply.

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Dark Pool Cartoons

This is basically how Dark Pools are used to manipulate markets.

Rich market makers and banks throw buy orders off-exchange to lower prices.

When they want to raise prices they put sell orders in the dark pools instead.

Like evil undead the rich steal money from investors by colluding on trades.

Thoughts In The Dark Pool

Dark pools are private off-exchange stock market trades that dominate corporate finance in 2023 due to complicit SEC and corrupt Congress shills. The reason companies use dark pools and other private exchanges is because they do not have to report much about them, and so they can send all the buy or sell orders there if they dont want those to affect the public price of shares.

I am starring at the DOW chart recently, meditating and wondering “are the rich really going to destroy all faith in the lit exchange and just make all real trades private?”

But as GG at the SEC says (as he looks like Gollum) “retail trades are tooooo sweeeet to ignore”. So i guess they need to keep some way for us to give them their money voluntarily like a lottery. When 1% short sellers drain whatever companies they feel like taking money from, they have a simple response to investors – “oh well you chose to play in a legal scam (which their lawyers consider substantially different than fraud which is illegal)”.

This US-Ukraine War against Russia is the start of WW3 and the 2nd Great Depression. It all can be reversed, but not without major political changes. The DOW 5 year chart – the Covid Crash is the first large crack or valley, and the 2 more recent cracks are part of this 2nd Great Depression because it is lasting so long, and has so many other socio-economic aspects besides the short-selling stock market epidemic and uncontrollable inflation. It is rumored most of the big companies are keeping the market afloat with buy backs, but there are also holding pattern algos connected to private dark pools collecting profits from investors.

The US MIC elites are doing what the Russian Empire did in the 1800s – drain national wealth into aristocracies who run an inflated military to control serfs and cause genocide. This kind of total control hates learning and trade, due to xenophobia and racism. Trade depends on TRUST of some kind. Records show US banks and market makers have lost money, yet these companies are bragging about record profits. Are they using 2 sets of books, one for taxes and another for clients and news??

The Swiss National Bank has reported an annual loss of $141.54 billion, which is the largest in the central bank’s 115-year history. The central bank lost $147.3 billion (141 billion Swiss francs) on its foreign currency positions, and $1.1 billion (1.1 billion Swiss francs) was lost in Gold holdings. – Unusual Whales

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