QQQ Questions (Not Metastock)

["jhmtn" <jhmtn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
 
I have some QQQ questions for the group.  All 
day yesterday I watched trades on my real-time provider (North American 
Quaotations) Time & Sales sheet show prints for extremely large 
trades.  For example a print at 12:15 (EST) for 26,214,900 @ 59.61, then 
the offset print balanced at 12:16 @ 59.63.  If that was a real 
trade, then that 2 cents profit bought someone 524,298.oo before trade costs -- 
neat I thought.  
 
Then I watched those trades off an on all 
day.  I looked over the trade history and saw an escallating 
pattern of shares traded at a print (rounded figures used with M=millions): 6M, 
13M, 26M, 32M, 39M, 45M, 52M, 58M, etc., all with offsetting and or 
multiple prints at a same shares traded number. <FONT 
face=Arial size=2> 
 
Today, the pattern repeated in share volume of 19M 
the 39M.  I figured that these trades were being executed by some major 
banking or mutual fund or insurance company trading desk at first.  But 
when I saw prints within the ame minute or a one or two minute print, I finanlly 
came to the conclusion that these trades had to be placed by the floor 
specialist and market maker in QQQ.
 
QUESTION # 1:  Were the trades placed 
by the MM specialist?  I don't get Level-2 quotes so I can't check that 
way. (And other than Level-2 how whould you find out who executed the 
trades?)
 
Then today, this humongous print comes through at 
381,798,912 shares traded!  I called the data vendor and they confirmed it 
was a valid print.  (See attached gif.)  Another oddball thing 
about this trade was that at the lower large trade volume prints there was 
always a print at 0 shares immediately before the large trade print.  With 
this monster, the 0 print followed. 
 
QUESTON # 2: I undestand the float shares 
of a company issued stock but are there float shares for a tracking stock?  
(And if so, where would you find the info?)
 
QUESTON # 3: What is the print with 0 
volume about?
 

QUESTON # 4: Could these trades be the 
result of a computer program executing them? <FONT 
face=Arial size=2> 
Inquiring minds wnat to know! (LOL 
!!!)
 
Thanxs !!! .............. 
John

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