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What is a block trade?

・According to the New York Stock Exchange, a block order consists of 10,000 shares of a given stock or at a total market value of $200,000 or more. ・This method allows buyers to maintain price ...
The following is excerpted from a study conducted by our quantitative research team about block trading in the equity markets. Block trading, or trades with sizes much larger than average, has been a ...