Dark Pool
A private exchange where large institutional orders are executed without being visible to the public market before the trade is complete.
Explained Simply
Dark pools allow institutional investors to trade large blocks of stock without revealing their intentions to the market. If a fund wants to buy 1 million shares, doing it on the public exchange would drive the price up before they finish buying. Dark pools let them execute quietly. After execution, dark pool prints are reported — and these prints can reveal institutional sentiment (buying or selling pressure) before it's reflected in the stock price.
How Tradewink Uses Dark Pool
Our dark pool scanning loop monitors prints every 10 minutes, filtering for significant activity ($1M+ total or 10+ prints per ticker). The AI classifies sentiment from dark pool flow and includes it in our options flow signals. Large dark pool prints at or above the current price suggest institutional accumulation — a bullish signal.
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