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Systems and methods for providing investment opportunities

  • US 20070043653A1
  • Filed: 09/11/2006
  • Published: 02/22/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2005
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for providing an investment competition in which at least one trading algorithm and at least one human trader participate, the method comprising:

  • providing a trading algorithm development application to a plurality of trading algorithm developers via a communications network;

    receiving one or more trading algorithms from a subset of the plurality of trading algorithm developers;

    facilitating an investment competition among the one or more received algorithms and one or more human traders by assigning an investment portfolio to each of the received algorithms and each of the human traders, and automatically generating trading instructions for the one or more received algorithms in response to market data and receiving trading instructions from the one or more human traders in response to the market data;

    determining a performance metric for each of the received algorithms and each of the human traders during the competition;

    selecting a winner of the investment competition from among the received algorithms and each of the human traders based at least in part on the performance metric.

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