System and method for a trading interface incorporating a chart

• US 20070156570A1
• Filed: 05/02/2006
• Published: 07/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
• Inventors: Singer, Scott, Burns, Michael, Decker, Stephen
• Granted Patent: US 7,580,881 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/37
• 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: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis

Abstract

A graphical interface and method are provided for displaying market information corresponding to a tradeable object. One graphical interface includes a chart region for displaying historical market data in relation to a first value axis, and a market grid region in alignment with the chart region. The market grid region comprises a plurality of areas for receiving commands from a user input device to send trade orders, and the areas are displayed in relation to a second value axis. A plurality of values displayed along the second value axis is a subset of values displayed in relation to the first value axis, and can be modified to a new plurality of values that corresponds to a new subset of values on the first value axis.

Claims

1. A method for displaying market data associated with a tradeable object being traded electronically on an electronic exchange, the method comprising:

receiving market data corresponding to the tradeable object, the market data comprising an inside market with highest bid price and a lowest ask price currently available for the tradeable object;

displaying historical market data corresponding to the tradeable object in a chart region, the historical market data being mapped to a first plurality of values along a first value axis;

displaying a market grid region in alignment with the chart region, the market grid region comprising a plurality of areas for receiving commands from a user input device to send trade orders to an electronic exchange, the areas in the market grid region correspond to a second plurality of values along a second value axis, the second plurality of values being an adjustable subset of the first plurality of values; and

modifying the market grid region by adjusting the second plurality of values along the second value axis according to a user input such that the second plurality of values now corresponds to a different subset of the first plurality of values than before the step of modifying.

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