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Dark pool — off-exchange short volume

Short ratio (latest)
68.4%
20-day average
61.5%
Off-exchange share (20d)
34%

Darkpool density

big day, short ratio above trendbelow trendbubble size = how unusual ($vol z-score)

Last ~6 months. Bubbles mark days of unusually large off-exchange dollar volume (≥1.5σ vs the trailing 60 days). Daily resolution — not print-level data.

Darkpool levels ±15% of spot, since 2018-10-01

90.55
0.22B
88.87
1.30B
87.19
2.20B
85.52
2.14B
83.84
1.42B
82.16
1.05B
80.49
0.74B
78.81
1.44B
77.13
1.34B
75.46
1.16B
73.78
0.43B
72.10
0.18B

Historical off-exchange $ volume at price: each day's volume spread across that day's range, summed over the full FINRA history. Heavy shelves often act as support/resistance magnets. Amber row = spot's bin.

Off-exchange short-volume ratio

short ratio (20d, right) daily off-exchange share (left)

FINRA daily TRF data, last 2 years. A persistently HIGH short ratio is mostly passive market-maker liquidity provision (commonly read as accumulation pressure) — not naively bearish.