System and method for displaying trend indications

• US 20080016009A1
• Filed: 06/30/2006
• Published: 01/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ICE Data Services, Inc. (Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Interactive Data Corporation (Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hjartberg, Jon S., Thompson, Charles
• Granted Patent: US 7,707,100 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/36R
• 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 system and method for displaying a trend indication using a primary and secondary indicia. The primary indicium corresponds to an overall trend indication and the secondary indicia relate to the reliability of the overall trend indication. The secondary indicia correspond to a trend indication for each phase of the selected analysis strategy. The secondary indicia provide the user with a quick and easy methodology to ascertain the reliability of the overall trend indication based on the concurrence or disagreement of the secondary indicia with the primary indicium.

Claims

1. A system for producing a trend indication to trade a security, the system comprising:

a processor configured to analyze security market data according to an analysis strategy;

a network connection in communication with the processor and configured to acquire market security data, the processor generating overall trend indication to trade a security based on analysis of the security market data, wherein the analysis strategy has a plurality of phases;

a display in electrical communication with the processor, the processor being configured to render a primary signal indicium and at least one secondary signal indicium on the display, the primary signal indicium being displayed in a first portion of a display area wherein the primary signal indicium is indicative of the overall trend indication to trade the security based on at least one phase of the plurality of phases, the at least one secondary signal indicium being displayed in a second portion of the display area, wherein the at least one secondary signal indicium is indicative of the reliability of the overall trend indication.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the overall trend indication includes one of an uptrend, downtrend, and neutral status.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one trend indication of the plurality of phases includes one of an uptrend, downtrend, and neutral status.

4. The system according to claim 1, further comprising the step of displaying a graphical representation of the analysis in response to a user selecting the primary or the at least one secondary signal indicium.

5. The system according to claim 1, further comprising the step of displaying an interface configured to edit analysis parameters in response to selecting the primary or the at least one secondary signal indicium.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the primary signal indicium and the at least one secondary signal indicium form a contiguous display region.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein signal indicia of the at least one secondary signal indicium are arranged in a series configuration.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one secondary signal indicium comprises a first, second, and third secondary indicium arranged in a series configuration, the second secondary indicium having a first and second opposite edge, the first secondary indicium being located adjacent the first edge of the second secondary indicium, and the third secondary indicium being located adjacent the second edge of the second secondary indicium.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one secondary signal-indicium is arranged about the periphery of the primary signal indicium.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein a signal indicium of at least one secondary signal indicium is rendered in a first, second, or third color corresponding to the overall trend indication of the primary signal indicium when the signal indicium is in agreement with the primary signal indicium, and the signal indicium is rendered in a fourth color when the signal indicium is not in agreement with the primary signal indicium.

11. A method for displaying a trend indication to trade a security, the method comprising:

acquiring security market data;

analyzing the security market data according to an analysis strategy;

generating an overall trend indication to trade a security based on analysis of the security market data, wherein the analysis strategy has a plurality of phases each of which is indicative of a trend indication;

displaying a primary signal indicium in a first portion of a display area wherein the primary signal indicium is indicative of the overall trend indication to trade the security based on at least one phase of the plurality of phases;

displaying at least one secondary signal indicium in a second portion of the display area, wherein each of the at least one secondary signal indicium is indicative of the reliability of the overall trend indication.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the overall trend indication includes one of a uptrend, downtrend, and neutral status.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the trend indication of each of the plurality of phases includes one of an uptrend, downtrend, and neutral status.

14. The method according to claim 11, further comprising the step of displaying a graphical representation of the analysis in response to selecting the primary or the at least one secondary signal indicium.

15. The method according to claim 11, further comprising the step of displaying an interface configured to edit analysis parameters in response to selecting the primary or the at least one secondary signal indicium.

16. The method according to claim 11, wherein the primary signal indicium and the at least one secondary signal indicium are displayed in a contiguous region.

17. The method according to claim 11, wherein signal indicia of the at least one secondary signal indicium are arranged in a series configuration.

18. The method according to claim 11, wherein the at least one secondary signal indicium are arranged such that a first, second, and third secondary indicium are arranged in a series configuration, the second secondary indicium having a first and second opposite edge, the first secondary indicium is located adjacent the first edge of the second secondary indicium, and the third secondary indicium is located adjacent the second edge of the second secondary indicium.

19. The method according to claim 11, wherein the at least one secondary signal indicium is arranged about the periphery of the primary signal indicium.

20. The method according to claim 11, wherein a signal indicium of at least one secondary signal indicium is rendered in a first, second, or third color corresponding to the overall trend indication of the primary signal indicium when the signal indicium is in agreement with the primary signal indicium, and the signal indicium is rendered in a fourth color when the signal indicium is not in agreement with the primary signal indicium.

21. A method for displaying a plurality of trend indications to trade a portfolio of securities, the method comprising:

acquiring security market data for a plurality of securities;

selecting an analysis strategy for each security from a plurality of analysis strategies;

analyzing the security market data for each security according to the selected analysis strategy;

generating a plurality of overall trend indications to trade a security based on analysis of the security market data for the security, wherein the analysis strategy has a plurality of phases each of which is indicative of a trend indication;

displaying each primary signal indicium from a plurality of primary signal indicia in a first portion of a display area wherein the primary signal indicia are indicative of the overall trend indication to trade the security based on at least one phase of the plurality of phases;

displaying each at least one secondary signal indicium of a plurality of at least one secondary signal indicia in a second portion of the display area, wherein each at least one secondary signal indicium is indicative of at least one trend indication of the plurality of phases;

wherein selecting a second analysis strategy will automatically generate the overall trend indications based on the second analysis strategy for each security of the portfolio of securities and update the plurality of primary signal indicia and the plurality of secondary signal indicia for each security of the portfolio of securities.