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Largest Single Dark Pool Trades
The single biggest individual dark pool prints of the day, ranked from largest to smallest regardless of ticker.
What is largest single dark pool trades?
Largest single dark pool trades is a session rank of the biggest individual off-exchange prints. Each row is one large order, not a ticker total. The same symbol can show up twice if it printed two huge fills. Total Premium is the default sort. It is a list of standout prints, not a buy list.
Dark pool fills still hit the public tape after they execute. This page does not stream those prints in time order. It keeps the largest individual fills of the session and ranks them by Total Premium. That is different from a ticker total. A name can sit high on Largest Dark Pool By Ticker with many smaller prints and never appear here. The same name can also appear twice here if it printed two huge fills. Total Size is the share count on that row. Total Trade Count tells you whether the row is one chunky fill or several prints clustered together. The chart is labeled Premium and DP Volume Ratio, Largest Single Orders. Larger dots have a higher DP Volume Ratio. Green leans bullish. Red leans bearish. Use Orders to keep 5, 20, 30, or All names on the chart. The page starts at 20. The table still holds the full rank.
On EZPZ, the live chrome titles the page Largest Single Dark Pool Trades. The table starts sorted by Total Premium, high to low. There is no ticker search on this page. Largest Dark Pool By Ticker is one row per symbol for the whole session. Dark Pool Sectors rolls those names into industry-group bars. Dark Pool Top Levels groups one ticker's prints by price. Daily Dark Pool Amount plots one ticker's Amount (M) against Price by Date. Dark Pool Movers and Shakers is SPY Price versus running Buy Amount and Sell Amount. Dark Pool Net Flow is one ticker's Buy Amount versus Sell Amount plus Volume bars. Dark Pool Sentiment is Cumulative Net Amount (M) bars by Date. Block Trades Sentiment is Buy Premium (M) versus Sell Premium (M) by Date, plus Volume Sentiment. Dark Pool Flow is the all-ticker off-exchange tape. SPY Flow locks that tape to SPY. $1M+ Premium Dark Pool Flow keeps only million-dollar prints. $1M+ DP Volume Flow is the high dark-volume tape. Dark Pool Index (DIX) is a market-wide DIX % line, not a print rank. Dark Pool Indicator (DPI) is a market-wide pressure ratio, not a print rank. Bullish Dark Pool Net Premium ranks names by Net Premium. Bearish Dark Pool Net Premium ranks the same Net Premium figure from the most negative reading. DarkVol Leaders ranks names by DarkVol Ratio %. Live Flow is listed options prints.
How Largest Single Dark Pool Trades works on EZPZ
Each row is one large order. It is not a score. Most people start with Symbol and Total Premium, then look for a symbol that repeats. If a row looks large only because Trade Count is huge, click another header. Use the chart when you want Premium and DP Volume Ratio in one picture. Change Orders if the chart is crowded. Then open a tape page if you want the prints around that fill.
How this differs from ticker totals and the tape
Largest Dark Pool By Ticker adds the session up by symbol. This page ranks one large order at a time. Use the ticker board when you want where dark size concentrated. Use this page when you care about the biggest individual fills. Dark Pool Sectors is Highest Premium Inflow and Highest Volume Inflow, then Premium vs Volume bars. Dark Pool Top Levels stays on one ticker and stacks that name's prints by price. Daily Dark Pool Amount is Amount (M) versus Price by Date, not a list of large orders. Dark Pool Movers and Shakers is SPY Price versus running Buy Amount and Sell Amount. Dark Pool Net Flow is one ticker's Buy Amount versus Sell Amount plus Volume bars. A name can top the ticker board and never show a single huge print here. The same name can also show twice here. Dark Pool Flow is the live tape with TIME, PREMIUM, DARK RATIO, and DIRECTION. $1M+ Premium Dark Pool Flow and $1M+ DP Volume Flow still show tape rows with a size floor. SPY Flow is only SPY. Live Flow is options, not equity dark pool prints.
Anatomy of a single-order row
Read a row left to right: the symbol, then how large that order was. You do not need every column on every row. Click a header to change the sort. Total Premium is the starting rank. Watch for the same Symbol more than once.
These columns answer which name you are looking at, and at what price.
| Column | What you are looking at |
|---|---|
| Symbol | The ticker on that large order. There is no search box. The same ticker can appear on more than one row. |
| Price | The price shown on the row. Use it to judge whether Total Premium came from expensive shares or from lots of cheaper ones. |
These columns help you decide if the print is large enough to spend time on.
| Column | What you are looking at |
|---|---|
| Total Premium | Notional on that large order. This is the default sort, high to low. |
| Total Size | Share size on the row. |
| Total Trade Count | How many dark pool prints went into the row. A huge premium with a small count is chunkier than the same premium across many prints. |
| Total Volume | The broader volume on the name, used next to DP Vol. |
| DP Vol | Dark pool volume on the row. Compare it to Total Volume. That share is the DP Volume Ratio on the chart. |
Premium and DP Volume Ratio, Largest Single Orders
The chart card uses the same large orders as the table. It does not add a second dataset. Orders only trims how many dots you see. It does not shrink the table.
- Orders: How many large orders the chart keeps. Choices are 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, and All. The page starts at 20.
- Premium: The left axis. Higher dots have more Total Premium.
- Dot size: DP Volume Ratio. A larger dot means more of that name's Total Volume printed as DP Vol on that row.
- Dot color: Green is a bullish lean. Red is a bearish lean. Amber is mixed or unclear. It is a tag, not a thesis.
How people actually use it
Scan Total Premium first
Leave Total Premium as the sort. Note the biggest fills. Then look for a symbol that repeats, or a quieter name sitting next to mega products.
Check Trade Count
A huge premium with a small Total Trade Count is one chunky fill. The same premium across thousands of prints is closer to a running total. Rank the chunky rows first.
Use Orders on the chart
Drop to 10 or 15 when you only want the premium leaders. Switch to 30 or All when you want more of the list on one chart.
Open the tape next
This page is a rank of large orders, not a setup. Open Dark Pool Flow for prints, or Largest Dark Pool By Ticker if you want the session total by name.