You can get this "large parcels" information from your online...

You can get this "large parcels" information from your online broker’s Course of Sales page (I use Commsec) which will probably have a "Download CSV" tab in the bottom r.h. cnr.,. to click on.

((Note: you can always do this – for the whole of the days’ trades if need be – after trading has ceased for the day, right up to the time your online broker deletes it from the Course of Sales page – in my experience – by around 7.30am the next day.

The download action immediately places the data on a blank Excel file page.

Widen then the 1st Col. (Col. A) to show you the trade times listed.

Then save the file as an Excel workbook file.

Then scan visually scan that Col A. for multiple trades at exactly the same time, for the same price.

You’ll get many, of maybe 10 to 20 trades, but because they’re so numerous, and for smaller parcels,of ~1 to 2m, I only bother with a greater # of trades at the 1 time.

I then highlight the vols. for each of the trades (say > 20) at the 1 time, copy that data into Col. H, and then highlight the whole of the copied data, which tells you down the bottom of your screen :

Average (vol. per trade) Count (# of trades) and Sum(total vol. of such trades).

I tend to ignore Average – both on Open time, and the Auction time – of 4.10.xxpm, when it’s my understanding that allthese “afterhours” trades are between brokers, and

- which you will note are all at exactly the same price, and

- not always @ the same price of the last trade before 4.00pm.

This methodology was the foundation for my 1^st post

https://hotcopper.com.au/posts/51756029/single

on the Thread EFFECT on SP post SPUD DATE Anns on 14 March

to point out the marked increase in activity of this sort, once a Company had announced its Spud date. Guata.