Customizable trading display of market data

• US 20050108653A1
• Filed: 01/16/2004
• Published: 05/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BGC Partners Incorporated (BGC Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: eSpeed Incorporated (BGC Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Langridge, Philip S.
• Granted Patent: US 8,131,626 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06393 Score-carding, benchmarking or key performance indicator [KPI] analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

Abstract

A method for providing a customizable trading display of market instrument data includes selecting a subset from a plurality of quadrants, with each quadrant associated with one benchmark instrument and each benchmark instrument associated with one or more non-benchmark instruments. Market data is automatically retrieved for the instruments associated with each selected quadrant. A customizable trading display is generated, with the display comprising the subset of quadrants in a selectable layout and each quadrant presenting the associated market data.

Claims

1. A method for providing a customizable trading display of market instrument data comprises:

selecting a subset from a plurality of quadrants, each quadrant associated with one benchmark instrument, each benchmark instrument associated with one or more non-benchmark instruments;

automatically retrieving market data for the instruments associated with each selected quadrant; and

generating a customizable trading display, the display comprising the subset of quadrants in a selectable layout and each quadrant presenting the associated market data.

2. The method of claim 1, the selectable layout selected from the group consisting of:

1×

6;

2×

3;

3×

2;

or

6×

1.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising exchanging one of the selected quadrants and a second one of the selected quadrants in the selectable layout in response to a command from a user.

4. The method of claim 3, the customizable trading display comprising one or more dynamically-selectable administrator options, each option selected from the group consisting of:

restricting movement of quadrants;

restricting resizing of trading display;

minimum height of each quadrant;

or

restricting at least one of the selectable layouts.

5. Software for providing a customizable trading display of market instrument data operable to:

select a subset from a plurality of quadrants, each quadrant associated with one benchmark instrument, each benchmark instrument associated with one or more non-benchmark instruments;

automatically retrieve market data for the instruments associated with each selected quadrant; and

generate a customizable trading display, the display comprising the subset of quadrants in a selectable layout and each quadrant presenting the associated market data.

6. The software of claim 5, the selectable layout selected from the group consisting of:

1×

6;

2×

3;

3×

2;

or

6×

1.

7. The software of claim 5, further operable to exchange one of the selected quadrants and a second one of the selected quadrants in the selectable layout in response to a command from a user.

8. The software of claim 7, the customizable trading display comprising one or more dynamically-selectable administrator options, each option selected from the group consisting of:

restricting movement of quadrants;

restricting resizing of trading display;

minimum height of each quadrant;

or

restricting at least one of the selectable layouts.

9. A trading system for providing a customizable trading display of market instrument data comprises:

a central repository operable to store a plurality of market data; and

a trading client comprising;

memory operable to store a plurality of quadrants, each quadrant associated with one benchmark instrument and at least one non-benchmark instrument, each non-benchmark instrument associated with the benchmark instrument; and

one or more processors operable to;

select a subset from one of the plurality of quadrants;

automatically retrieve at least a portion of the plurality of market data for the instruments associated with each selected quadrant; and

generate a customizable trading display, the display comprising the subset of quadrants in a selectable layout and each quadrant presenting the associated market data.

10. The system of claim 9, the selectable layout selected from the group consisting of:

1×

6;

2×

3;

3×

2;

or

6×

1.

11. The system of claim 9, the processors further operable to exchange one of the selected quadrants and a second one of the selected quadrants in the selectable layout in response to a command from a user.

12. The system of claim 9, the customizable trading display comprising one or more dynamically-selectable administrator options, each option selected from the group consisting of:

restricting movement of quadrants;

restricting resizing of trading display;

minimum height of each quadrant;

or

restricting at least one of the selectable layouts.