These may be trades done outside regular trading hours (RTH), not via the regular electronic market. The low volume (quantity/size) highlights the difference between such trades (which are infrequent) and trades during normal trading hours.
If you run a streaming query and check the reported MessageContents and TradeCondition fields, you'll probably see that they contain codes that correspond to "Extended/Form-T Trade" (
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/formt.asp) i.e., traded outside RTH.
Some IQFeed queries have the ability to set a filter (BeginFilterTime, EndFilterTime) that limit the reported results to a specific daily time range (for example, 9:30am to 4pm) - you can set it up so that extended trades are not reported.
Yair Altman
IQML - IQFeed-MATLAB connector
https://UndocumentedMatlab.com/IQML
I am not a DTN employee; my post reflects my personal opinion