DERIVATIVES TRADING METHODS THAT USE A VARIABLE ORDER PRICE AND A HEDGE TRANSACTION

• US 20080052223A1
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Published: 02/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (CME Group Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (CME Group Incorporated)
• Inventors: Thiruthuvadoss, Agnes, Salvadori, David, Johnson, Scott, Falck, John, Ariathurai, Arjuna, Farrell, James, Troxel, Charlie
• Granted Patent: US 8,374,947 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 40/03 Credit; Loans; Processing thereof
• 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

Systems and methods are provided for executing a hedge transaction in connection with the execution of a derivative product order in which the price of the derivative product is defined by one or more variables. The hedge transaction may be executed at an exchange or match engine that is different from the exchange or match engine executing the derivative product order. The execution of derivative product transaction may be contingent on the existence of an appropriate hedge transaction. Alternatively, a best efforts approach may be used to fill the hedge transaction order after executing the derivative product transaction.

Claims

1. A method of synthetically matching unresolved hedge transaction orders for orders belonging to a common class, the method comprising:

(a) prioritizing unresolved hedge transaction orders having a positive value of an order risk variable;

(b) prioritizing unresolved hedge transaction orders having a negative value of the order risk variable; and

(c) synthetically matching the unresolved hedge transaction orders according to the priorities identified in (a) and (b).

2. The method of claim 1, further including:

(d) identifying any residual unresolved hedge transactions that remain after (c); and

(e) when at least one residual unresolved hedge transaction exists, locating at least one potential hedge transaction.

3. The method of claim 2, further including:

(f) executing the potential hedge transaction when a order risk data rule is not violated.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the rule in (f) requires that the order risk data not be exceeded after the potential hedge transaction.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the rule in (f) requires that the order risk data not be exceeded before the potential hedge transaction.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the potential hedge transaction includes a plurality of contracts and (f) comprises:

(i) identifying the lowest number of the contracts that will cause the order risk date to be exceeded; and

(ii) executing a transaction that includes the number of contracts identified in (i).

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the potential hedge transaction includes a plurality of contracts and (f) comprises:

(i) identifying the lowest number of the contracts that will cause the order risk date to be exceeded; and

(ii) executing a transaction that includes one less than the number of contracts identified in (i).