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$1M+ Premium Dark Pool Flow
Dark pool prints filtered down to only the trades carrying at least a million dollars of notional value, cutting out the smaller, more routine prints.
What is $1M plus premium dark pool flow?
$1M plus premium dark pool flow is the live tape of off-exchange equity prints where the notional already clears one million dollars. Notional is price times shares. The public dark pool tape is mostly smaller prints. This view keeps only the large-premium rows.
Reading a row is the same job as any dark pool tape. Premium and dark volume tell you whether enough capital moved to care, though every row here already cleared one million dollars. Dark Ratio shows how much of that ticker's total volume printed off exchange. Direction is a row label, not proof that someone is accumulating. The print hits the tape later. It is not a hidden buyer.
A million-dollar notional can come from a lot of cheaper shares or from fewer expensive ones. Repeated large prints on the same ticker in a short window are usually a stronger prompt than a single row. Size still does not tell you who traded, or whether it was a block, a market-maker fill, or one slice of a larger parent order.
On EZPZ, $1M+ Premium Dark Pool Flow is that tape with the floor already locked. The live chrome titles the page 1M+ Dark Pool Premium Flow. You can search a ticker, change direction, and raise size or volume floors. You cannot lower the million-dollar notional cut. Dark Pool Flow is the all-ticker tape with no size floor. SPY Flow locks the same columns to SPY. $1M+ DP Volume Flow is a running total by ticker, not the raw tape. $1M Plus Flow is listed options prints with a million-dollar premium floor, not equity dark pool prints.
How $1M+ Premium Dark Pool Flow works on EZPZ
Each row is one reported snapshot that already cleared one million dollars of notional: the ticker, the size, the premium, and how much of that name's volume printed in the dark. It is not a score. Most people start with TICKER, PREMIUM, DARK VOLUME, and DARK RATIO. If a row looks interesting, read AVG SIZE, # DP TRADES, and DIRECTION next. When even this list is too much, filter to a ticker you already care about or raise the size or volume floors.
How this differs from Dark Pool Flow
Dark Pool Flow is the full off-exchange tape. Its Filters drawer includes a Premium min and max, so you can see smaller prints. This page cannot. The million-dollar notional floor is the view. Use Dark Pool Flow when you want the quieter prints around a standout. Use this page when you only want million-dollar premium. Use SPY Flow when you only care about the S&P 500 ETF. Use $1M+ DP Volume Flow when you want a session total by ticker, even if no single print was that large. Use $1M Plus Flow when you want listed options fills, not equity dark pool prints.
Anatomy of a print
Read a row left to right: when it printed, what ticker, then how large the dark activity is. You do not need every column on every print. Use the tabs if you want a map of the fields.
These columns answer what printed, and when.
| Column | What you are looking at |
|---|---|
| TIME | When the print was reported. Dark pool prints can arrive after the fill. |
| TICKER | The symbol. Search ticker lives in the toolbar and in the Filters drawer. |
| PRICE | The reported trade price. |
| DIRECTION | Bullish, bearish, or neutral label on the row. It is a tag, not a thesis. |
These columns help you decide how the million-dollar print was built.
| Column | What you are looking at |
|---|---|
| SIZE | Share size on this snapshot. A small size with huge premium is usually an expensive name. |
| AVG SIZE | Average shares per dark pool trade in the row. Larger usually means fewer, chunkier prints. |
| PREMIUM | Dollar notional on the dark activity. Every row here is already at least $1M. |
| # DP TRADES | How many individual dark pool transactions are rolled into this row. |
These columns compare off-exchange size to the ticker's total volume.
| Column | What you are looking at |
|---|---|
| TOTAL VOLUME | Shares traded across venues, lit plus dark. |
| DARK VOLUME | Shares reported off exchange for this ticker. |
| DARK×PRICE | Dark volume times price. Another dollar read on the same size. |
| DARK RATIO | A bar and percent of dark volume over total volume. A fuller bar means more of that name's tape printed off exchange. |
Filter the tape
Click Filters in the toolbar. That drawer is how you cut a million-dollar tape down to a watchlist name, a direction hunt, or a size screen. Reset puts the defaults back. All three direction toggles start on. There is no Premium range in this drawer. The million-dollar floor is the page.
Toggles
- Direction: Bullish, bearish, and neutral row labels. Turn two off if you only want one color.
Ranges
- Search ticker: Limit the tape to one symbol. The same search also lives in the toolbar.
- Price, Total Volume, Dark Pool Volume, Size, # of DP Trades: Min and max. Leave a field empty and there is no cap on that side (shown as infinity).
On the toolbar you can also change how many rows you see (50 is the starting setting), which columns are visible, and the text size. Those controls do not live in the Filters drawer.
Stay live
The right side of the toolbar controls whether the tape keeps moving:
- Live: newer matching prints can show up during market hours.
- Paused: the tape freezes so a row does not scroll away while you read it.
- Prev / Next: page toward newer or older prints that still match your filters.
How people actually use it
Watch the biggest prints
Leave ticker search empty. Keep Live on. You are listening for size across the whole market, not one name.
Watch one name, still $1M
Filter to a ticker already on your radar. The floor stays at one million. You will not see the smaller prints around it here.
Do not confuse it with DP volume
This page lists individual prints that already cleared $1M. Open $1M+ DP Volume Flow if you want names whose session total added up to that number.
Use it next to the full tape
This page is the million-dollar slice. Open Dark Pool Flow if a row makes you want the quieter prints around it. Open $1M Plus Flow if you want options around the same name.