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Thanks for that Dave, yes understand what your saying there, the market opens in a staged format and the auction takes place alphabeticaly by company code on open. The main query i have is where you see consecutive trade numbers (SSN) regardless of the time of day, is this all the same buyer with individual sellers or is it simply a group of trades (different buyers and different sellers) all being processed at the same time? all at the same price. The reason i'm asking is because you can see this occurring at any time during the day, particularly with stocks that are being heavily traded and i'm wondering can this be taken as an indication of the size of positions that individuals are taking by adding the total volume of the consecutive numbered trades.

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