As Dark Pool Volume Soars, Citadel's Sudden Transparency Interesting

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Mark Melin
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As Dodd-Frank regulatory changes loom, trading volume in a leading “dark pool” exchange has recently exploded.

As Dark Pool Volume Soars, Citadel's Sudden Transparency Interesting

Average daily volume on Citadel Securities trading platform, Citadel Connect, which was 25 million daily contracts a year ago, saw on average 72 million contracts traded daily in January, according to a report from Reuters.

Dark pool’s display of transparency interesting

Citadel’s display of transparency regarding its once secretive dark pool is interesting.  Until recently the dark...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.