Wednesday, April 22, 2020 10:33:32 PM
During the up-trending week of February 3, JPMorgan Chase’s own Dark Pools (it owns two) were the 4th and 10th most active Dark Pool trading its own stock. (Ask yourself why any Wall Street bank that has pleaded guilty to three criminal felony counts and is under a fourth criminal investigation for allowing its precious metals desk to turn into a racketeering enterprise should be allowed to own one Dark Pool, let alone two that could potentially create a two-sided market all by itself.) During the crash week, JPMorgan’s internal Dark Pool known as JPM-X ranked 8th in trading of its own shares.
In the crash week, UBS’s Dark Pool upped its trading in shares of JPMorgan Chase by 4.8 times while Goldman Sach’s Dark Pool, known as Sigma X2, traded 2.6 times more of the stock of JPMorgan Chase than traded in the up-trending week of February 3.
Equally interesting, a Dark Pool called Level ATS that is jointly owned by Citigroup, Merrill Lynch (part of Bank of America), Credit Suisse and National Financial Services (according to its SEC filing) increased its trading in the shares of JPMorgan Chase to 1,086,781 in the crash week from a mere 216,896 in the up-trending week of February 3.
Credit Suisse also owns its own, separate Dark Pool known as Crossfinder. It ranked second in trading shares of JPMorgan Chase during the crash week of March 16. Crossfinder traded 2,670,261 shares in the week of March 16 versus 17 percent of that amount during the up-trending week.
Following another era of unbridled greed and deregulation on Wall Street that ended in the stock market crash of 1929, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee conducted an extensive investigation from 1930 to 1934 into the trading structure and trading practices on Wall Street. The Senate investigations focused extensively on the corrupt operations of “Pools,” today reincarnated as Dark Pools. The Senate Banking Committee wrote the following:
“A pool, according to stock exchange officials, is an agreement between several people, usually more than three, to actively trade in a single security. The investigation has shown that the purpose of a pool generally is to raise the price of a security by concerted activity on the part of the pool members, and thereby to enable them to unload their holdings at a profit upon the public attracted by the activity or by information disseminated about the stock. Pool operations for such a purpose are incompatible with the maintenance of a free and uncontrolled market.”
The Senate Banking Committee of 1934 concluded as follows:
“The conclusion is inescapable that members of the organized exchanges who had a participation in or managed pools, while simultaneously acting as brokers for the general public, were representing irreconcilable interests and attempting to discharge conflicting functions. Yet the stock exchange authorities could perceive nothing unethical in this situation.”
Today, FINRA, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Congress, the Justice Department, and the hundreds of mainstream journalists who cover the Wall Street beat, remain eerily silent about the fact that Wall Street banks are trading in Dark Pools their own stock and that of other global banks with whom they are engaged in derivative trades as counterparties to each other.
As the 1929 crash proved, such manipulations never end well for the broader society. It took 25 years for the stock market to reach the peak it had set in 1929, not achieving that peak again until 1954. The 1929 stock market lost 90 percent of its value from peak to trough and unleashed the Great Depression
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