Nancy B King

I’m converting the topics from my book Stock Market Investing Made EZ into a stand alone, online class. Now that I’ve gotten into doing what I said I would never do—updating the book—I’m really enjoying researching and digging around the internet. This week I’m working on the section about stock exchanges. The exchange scene has significantly changed in the past 10 years: the NYSE, the Electronic Communication Networks (ECNs), the dark pools.

Want to know what a Dark Pool is? It is when institutional investors buy and sell very large blocks of stocks anonymously, unseen by the market. Here it is a great whiteboard explanation from NPRs Market Place! (I tried to embed it here for your convenience but was unsuccessful)