Block Trade

By Marissa Goodbody | May 29, 2013

A block trade is a single trade with large number of shares.  Block trades usually show institutional trading.  The exact definition varies, but usually is 20,000 shares, 50,000 shares or 100,000 shares.

Traders can use our service to watch for block trades.  Traders can configure this alert to set the minimum number of shares.

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