Method and system for electronic trading including transactional history

• US 20060080215A1
• Filed: 04/01/2005
• Published: 04/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Waverules LLC
• Original Assignee: Wave Rules LLC
• Inventors: Handley, John, Warsaw, Jeff
• Application Number:
  US11/097,997
• Publication Number:
  US 20060080215A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis

Abstract

The present invention relates to systems and methods of electronic trading. Embodiments involve presenting real-time financial market data in a user interface, wherein the real-time financial market data includes a plurality of adjacent cells containing proposed trade quantities with associated prices; and presenting historical trade quantity and price information in the GUI; wherein the historical information scrolls on the screen as new real-time financial market data is refreshed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

presenting real-time financial market data in a user interface, wherein the user interface includes a plurality of adjacent cells containing proposed trade quantities with associated prices; and

presenting historical information including historical trade quantity and price information in the user interface;

wherein the historical information scrolls on the screen as new real-time financial market data is added to the historical information.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the historical information includes a plurality of trades.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the historical information is presented in a vertical column.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the historical information includes historical buy contract quantities.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the historical information includes bid contract quantities.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the historical information includes ask contract quantities.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the historical information is presented horizontally.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the historical information includes historical sell contract quantities.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the historical information is presented horizontally.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the historical information includes historical buy contract quantities and historical sell contract quantities.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the historical buy contract quantities are presented in a different color from the historical sell contract quantities.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises presenting current trade information, wherein the current trade information is presented in association with the real-time financial market data.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein a current trade quantity is aligned in the user interface with an associated price in a column of the real-time financial market data.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein at least a portion of the real-time financial market data is presented in reverse video format.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the user interface responds to a user entry of a quantity in a cell of the user interface by executing a trade.

16. A method of presenting information relevant to a trade, comprising:

providing a user interface associated with a trading system; and

displaying a scrolling bid-ask series in the user interface that includes an ask traded quantity and a bid traded quantity for one or more historical points in time.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the scrolling bid-ask series includes a plurality of trades.

18. The method of claim 16 wherein scrolling bid-ask series is presented in a vertical column.

19. The method of claim 16 wherein scrolling bid-ask series is presented horizontally.

20. The method of claim 16 wherein the ask traded quantity and the bid traded quantity are presented in different colors.

21. The method of claim 20 wherein at least a portion of the scrolling bid-ask series is presented in reverse video format.

22. The method of claim 16 wherein the user interface responds to a user entry of a quantity in a cell of the user interface by executing a trade.

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