Electronic market calendar

• US 20030147309A1
• Filed: 02/06/2002
• Published: 08/07/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Refinitiv US Organization, LLC (Refinitiv US Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: FX Alliance (The Woodbridge Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Weisberg, Philip
• Granted Patent: US 7,376,605 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 368/29
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G09D 3/12 electrically operated

Abstract

An electronic market calendar that identifies settlement dates, holidays, market-related events, and provides links to news, information and research materials, pertaining to certain transaction terms, currencies or territories. The invention displays or provides a market calendar in which each one of a plurality of calendar dates that corresponds to a settlement date, a market-related event date or a holiday is displayed in a visibly distinct manner from the rest of the calendar dates. The set of market-related events may include, for example, events such as national elections, publications of economic forecasts, releases of economic reports, monetary policy announcements, trade announcements, interest rate announcements, press releases, governmental hearings, federal open market committee meetings, financial summit meetings, or any other events related to the market in which the electronic market calendar is applied.

Claims

1. A computer-readable storage medium encoded with a program executable by a computer for display of an electronic market calendar, the electronic market calendar comprising:

a set of settlement dates pertaining to a set of transaction terms;

a set of market-related events pertaining to the set of transaction terms;

a set of holidays pertaining to a territory; and

a plurality of calendar dates including the set of settlement dates, the set of market-related events and the set of holidays;

wherein each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is a member of the set of settlement dates is displayed in a visibly distinct manner from each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is not a member of the set of settlement dates,

each one of the plurality of calendar dates that corresponds to a member of the set of market-related events is displayed in a visibly distinct manner from each one of the plurality of calendar dates that does not correspond to a member of the set of market-related events, and

each one of the plurality of calendar dates that corresponds to a member of the set of holidays is displayed in a visibly distinct manner from each one of the plurality of calendar dates that does not correspond to a member of the set of holidays.

2. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the set of market-related events comprises at least one of the following:

a national election,

an economic forecast,

a release of an economic report,

a monetary policy announcement,

a trade announcement,

an interest rate announcement,

a press release,

a governmental hearing,

a federal open market committee meeting, and

a financial summit meeting.

3. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the set of transaction terms comprises:

a transaction type;

a transaction date; and

a transaction currency designation.

4. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein the transaction type is at least one of the following:

a foreign exchange transaction,

a spot transaction,

a currency swap,

a forward contract,

a futures contract,

a money-market transaction,

a bond transaction,

a derivative contract, and

an option contract.

5. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the territory comprises at least one of the following:

the world,

a plurality of countries,

a continent,

a geographic region,

a country,

a state within a country,

a county, and

a city.

6. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein the transaction currency designation comprises a pair of currencies.

7. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein the set of market-related events is determined by reference to the transaction currency designation.

8. A computer-readable storage medium encoded with a program executable by a computer for display of an electronic market calendar, the electronic market calendar comprising:

a plurality of calendar dates;

a set of settlement dates pertaining to a set of transaction terms; and

a set of market-related events pertaining to the set of transaction terms.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 wherein:

each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is a member of the set of settlement dates is displayed in a visibly distinct manner from each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is not a member of the set of settlement dates.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 wherein:

each one of the plurality of calendar dates that corresponds to a member of the set of market-relate d events is displayed in a visibly distinct manner from each one of the plurality of calendar dates that does not correspond to a member of the set of market-related events.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 wherein the set of market-related events comprises at least one of the following:

a national election,

an economic forecast,

a release of an economic report,

a monetary policy announcement,

a trade announcement,

an interest rate announcement,

a press release,

a governmental hearing,

a federal open market committee meeting, and

a financial summit meeting.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the set of transaction terms comprises:

a transaction type;

a transaction date; and

a transaction currency designation.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the transaction type is at least one of the following:

a foreign exchange transaction,

a spot transaction,

a currency swap,

a forward contract,

a futures contract,

a money market transaction,

a bond transaction,

a derivative contract, and

an option contract.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the transaction currency designation comprises a pair of currencies.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the set of market-related events is determined by reference to the transaction currency designation.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the program is further configured to identify a set of holidays pertaining to a territory.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein:

each one of the plurality of calendar dates that corresponds to a member of the set of holidays is displayed in a visibly distinct manner from each one of the plurality of calendar dates that does not correspond to a member of the set of holidays.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the territory is selected by a user.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the territory is determined by reference to a transaction currency designation.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the territory comprises at least one of the following:

the world,

a plurality of countries,

a continent,

a geographic region,

a country,

a state within a country,

a county, and

a city.

21. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the set of holidays comprises a set of national holidays for the territory.

22. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the program is operable in a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation, wherein

in the first mode of operation, the set of settlement dates and the set of market-related events fall within one month of the transaction date;

and

in the second mode of operation, the set of settlement dates and the set of market-related events fall within one year of the transaction date.

23. An electronic market calendar comprising:

a first memory storage area containing a plurality of market-related event data sets,

each market-related event data set pertaining to at least one of a plurality of territories;

an event-date generator configured to generate a set of market-related event dates based on a set of transaction terms and at least one of the plurality of market-related event data sets;

a settlement date calculator configured to generate a set of settlement dates pertaining to the set of transaction terms;

a display controller, responsive to the event-date generator and the settlement date calculator, configured to display a calendar comprising a plurality of calendar dates, including the set of market-related event dates and the set of settlement dates, wherein

each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is a member of the set of market-related event dates is displayed in a visibly distinct manner from each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is not a member of the set of market related event dates, and

each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is a member of the set of settlement dates is displayed in a visibly distinct manner from each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is not a member of the set of settlement dates.

24. The electronic market calendar of claim 23, further comprising:

a second memory storage area containing a plurality of holiday data sets, each holiday data set pertaining to one of the plurality of territories; and

a holiday date generator configured to generate a set of holiday dates based on the set of transaction terms and at least one of the plurality of holiday data sets;

wherein each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is a member of the set of holiday dates is visibly distinguished from each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is not a member of the set of holiday dates.

25. An electronic market calendar comprising:

means for acquiring a set of transaction terms;

means, responsive to the means for acquiring, for generating a set of market-related event dates, based on the set of transaction terms, for at least one of a plurality of territories;

means for generating a set of settlement dates based on the set of transaction terms;

means for displaying a calendar comprising a plurality of calendar dates, the plurality of calendar dates including the set of market-related event dates and the set of settlement dates, wherein

each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is a member of the set of market-related event dates is visibly distinguished from each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is not a member of the set of market related event dates, and

each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is a member of the set of settlement dates is visibly distinguished from each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is not a member of the set of settlement dates.

26. The electronic market calendar of claim 25, further comprising:

means for generating a set of holiday dates pertaining to the set of transaction terms;

wherein the plurality of calendar dates further includes the set of holiday dates; and

each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is a member of the set of holiday dates is visibly distinguished from each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is not a member of the set of holiday dates.

27. The electronic market calendar of claim 25, further comprising:

an input control configured to accept a selection of the set of transaction terms from a user.

28. A method for displaying a market calendar, comprising:

generating a set of market-related event dates pertaining to a set of transaction terms;

generating a set of settlement dates pertaining to the set of transaction terms; and

displaying a calendar having a plurality of calendar dates, including the set of settlement dates and the set of market-related event dates;

wherein each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is a member of the set of market-related event dates is visibly distinguished from each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is not a member of the set of market-related event dates, and

each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is within the set of settlement dates is visibly distinguished from each one of the plurality of calendar dates not within the set of settlement dates.

29. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

generating a set of holiday dates pertaining to the set of transaction terms; and

displaying each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is a member of the set of holiday dates in a visibly distinct manner from each one of the plurality of calendar dates that is not a member of the set of holiday dates.

30. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

receiving the set of transactions.

31. An electronic market calendar interface, comprising:

a first display region comprising a user-activatible control configured to receive a set of transaction terms from a user;

a second display region configured to identify, for a selected calendar month, a set of settlement dates pertaining to the set of transaction terms;

a third display region configured to identify, for a selected time-period, a second set of settlement dates pertaining to the set of transaction terms.

32. The electronic market calendar interface of claim 31, further comprising:

a fourth display region configured to identify a set of holiday dates pertaining to the set of transaction terms.

33. The electronic market calendar interface of claim 31, wherein the selected time-period comprises a twelve-month period immediately following the selected calendar month.

34. The electronic market calendar interface of claim 31, further comprising:

a user-activatible control configured to facilitate performing market-related research.

35. The electronic market calendar interface of claim 31, further comprising:

a user-activatible control configured to display a market-related news item.

36. The electronic market calendar interface of claim 31, further comprising:

a user-activatible control configured to display a market-related informational item.