Understanding todays close for MTCH

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I was watching MTCH into the close today, which would normally be uneventful. As the bell rang, I saw a massive spike in purchase volume:

Which struck me as odd given the usual daily volume for the stock:

“Ok”, I’m thinking…”did somone just buy 1.8M shares of this stock?!?”

So I check time and sales and my confusion deepens:

Ok, why are there two 1.8M share transactions listed? Is this really a sell/buy between two parties on the open exchange?

I would expect something this large to go through a block trade, but with quad witching today, I’m not sure if this is some rebalancing action.

Anyone have any insights on what exactly this is?

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