An overview of stock market trading

You would have heard of words like the stock market, trading, shareholders, and much more. It all belongs to the world of stock trading. Stock trading is the act of buying and selling shares and stock of various public-held companies. Stock exchanges are the places where thousands of transactions of securities like stocks, bonds, treasury bills, and mutual funds take place. You can find a brokerage firm to help with your trading journey since it is difficult for an individual investor to tackle all the formalities that go with a stock exchange. There will be a small charge for the brokerage firms for their services. You should start a trading account with any of the brokerage firms or other electronic platforms that allow you to see the various stocks with their prices and trade with them. Apart from these traditional brokerage activities in stock trading, there is a private stock market trading action that will be under the control of a large broker firm instead of the direct stock exchange, known as Dark trading. Liquidity in these trading activities is known as dark pools of liquidity. In this article, let us discuss in detail about the dark market trading process. 

Dark Trading

The dark stock markets are controlled by large and influential brokerage firms. Their operation will be anonymous to a certain extent and the trade will consist of only new shares before they get listed in the day’s listings. These dark markets will allow some people to trade the new stocks of companies that are not matched with the national stock exchange. The trades will be in large quantities. The performance of new shares in the dark market will reflect in the original listings without considering the needs of the entire stock market.

Benefits of dark market trading

• The investors who lost their bids against the new shares on the original listings can buy those through dark markets
• You would not have to pay any transaction fee or other charges, thus reducing the amount to invest
• If you buy new stocks in large quantities, the market impact will not hurt your investments
• Dark market trading allows investors to see a profit in advance to the original listings
• They can beware of the performance of the new stocks beforehand
• These are the private exchanges that do not allow public interactions

Disadvantages of dark market trading

Dark market trading will let you know the future performance of new stocks in some cases, but you cannot be sure that the reflection will be the same. There may be some instances where the outcomes turn out completely different from that of dark trading. The impact-reflection may decline with days passing by. You can see the exact results only on the first day of dark trading. Since the stock market listings are dependent on market performance and other various factors, you should not consider the facts you gain from the dark trading experience as the primary source of information.