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What are “Dark Pools” of Money?
Large institutional investors sometimes trade on “Electronic Trading Crossing Networks," which allow them to conduct trades without publicly exposing them.
They are used by financial institutions to move large blocks of shares without public investors even knowing about such transactions. Such examples of networks are “Liquidnet,” “Pipeline,” “SIGMA X,” and many others.
It might be difficult to fathom the size of the transactions conducted over these networks, but the ownership of dark pools involves almost every institutional trading house. This is a huge business and regulators are carefully looking into their activities.
What is After-Hours Trading?
What was the Subprime Meltdown?
How is a Roth 401(k) Different From a Regular 401(k)?
The main difference is that Roth contributions go in after tax and are not taxed on withdrawal
What Does M&A Mean?
M&A stands for Mergers and Acquisitions, and refers to the consolidation of companies or assets for strategic purposes
What is the Home Market Effect?
The home market effect (HME) is a theoretical term used in trade theory economics, describing the concentration of an...
What is Investment Banking?
Investment banks often serve as intermediaries that underwrite a new issue of stock and help to distribute it
How to use the Arms Index (TRIN) in trading
The Arms Index is also called the Trin (short for “Trading Index”) because it seeks to indicate overbought or oversold conditions by serving as an index of trading activity
A/A2 — credit rating
The A/A2 rating is considered Upper Medium Investment Grade. The reason there are two ratings separated by a slash...
What is currency exchange?
Currencies are exchanged for each other on a massive scale on the international Forex market. Millions engage in trading
What does PIP mean?
A PIP is the standard smallest increment of change or precision at which a currency is quoted and tracked in Forex markets
Should I Trust the Opinions Expressed by Various Financial Analysts?
Studies suggest that it is not wise to put too much faith in any market analyst or commentator
Channel Up (Bullish)
A Channel Up pattern shows a clearly defined uptrend and describes the behavior of the price contained between upward sloping parallel lines.