Dark Pools: How to Access Institutional Liquidity Without Getting Front-Run: Hidden Order Books, Midpoint Pegging, and Advanced Execution Tactics for Individual Traders by Hayden Van Der Post, Alice Schwartz
English | April 23, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0F64FRYLG | 280 pages | EPUB | 1.16 Mb
English | April 23, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0F64FRYLG | 280 pages | EPUB | 1.16 Mb
Reactive Publishing
Dark Pools for Retail: How to Access Institutional Liquidity Without Getting Front-Run
Hidden Order Books, Midpoint Pegging, and Advanced Execution Tactics for Individual Traders
Stop Trading in the Dark. Start Executing Like the Pros.
If you’re still routing market orders to the lit exchange and wondering why your fills suck—it’s not bad luck. It’s bad routing.
Dark Pools for Retail pulls back the curtain on the execution layer of modern markets—the hidden world where institutions quietly move billions without disturbing price… while retail traders get picked off one order at a time.
Inside You’ll Discover:
- What Dark Pools Really Are—and how they differ from lit exchanges
- Why Your Market Orders Feed HFTs (and how to stop donating alpha)
- How to Use Hidden and Midpoint-Pegged Orders like a buy-side desk
- Retail Brokers That Let You Route Smartly (and which ones to avoid)
- Real Execution Tactics using IBKR, TradeStation, and more
- How Institutions Layer Liquidity and Mask Intent
- Retail traders tired of getting front-run or stopped out
- High-IQ investors who want execution edge, not just better ideas
- Algo traders seeking tighter fills and lower slippage
- Long-term investors who want to accumulate without moving the market
They know how to buy it, where to hide it, and when to strike.

