Exchange Distribution

What Does Exchange Distribution Mean?
A type of trade made on the floor of a securities exchange in which a large block of shares traded actually represents many buy and sell orders that have been pooled and executed as one transaction.

Investopedia explains Exchange Distribution
Exchange distributions are recorded on the ticker tape after the trade has taken place.

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