RE: I just bought another 50,000 at 9.37am. Let's see if it shows up as a buy or sell. Will be inresting.15 Aug 2025 16:39
Trading platforms often mislabel trades as “buy” or “sell” because exchanges typically don’t provide explicit initiator data for each trade. Instead, platforms use algorithms to infer who initiated the trade based on price movements, which can be unreliable. Access to precise initiator information is usually limited, expensive, or not public, so these inferences sometimes get it wrong.
Clearly AI generated, but also some trades the info isn’t available - dark trades etc. - so the platforms just implement a rule for all and hope for the best.
Personally I think it suits them and can be used to their advantage, such as many of the recent mid-price large trades.