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Systems and methods for implementing trading and global matching based on request and offer of liquidity

  • US 10,229,457 B2
  • Filed: 05/11/2015
  • Issued: 03/12/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for stimulating trading in a limited-liquidity financial instrument over a computer network having a server system and at least first and second computers, the method comprising:

  • receiving at said server a trade of liquidity for the limited-liquidity financial instrument, said receiving comprising;

    receiving a first order from said computers, said first order corresponding to a price and volume associated with a pre-determined bid-offer spread, said order being executable only in conjunction with a counterorder that trades with the first order and includes a commitment to make a two-way market in the financial instrument at the pre-determined bid-offer spread and initiating a timer to keep track of time elapsed since occurrence of a trade of the financial instrument to a pre-determined time requirement to make a market; and

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    comparing at said server a time elapsed since occurrence of a trade of the financial instrument to a predetermined time requirement to make a market; and

    if results of the comparison indicate that the time elapsed has exceeded the predetermined time requirement, then executing a process to (a) initiate a process to generate electronic commands to cause to submit a trade on a default market based on existing market prices, (b) to initiate a penalty phase to generate electronic commands to cause to impose a penalty on a user that has made the commitment to make a two-way market in the financial instrument at the predetermined bid-offer spread but that has failed to execute a trade on the commitment, and (c) execute a process to cause to generate electronic commands to impose restriction of participation rights on the user that has made the commitment but failed on the commitment.

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