METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MULTIPLE MARKETS

• US 20090171832A1
• Filed: 12/28/2007
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cunningham Trading Systems LLC (Plus500 Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Cunningham Trading Systems LLC (Plus500 Ltd.)
• Inventors: BUSBY, Andrew William
• Application Number:
  US11/966,617
• Publication Number:
  US 20090171832A1
• 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

Abstract

A method is provided for displaying contract information for a plurality of markets within the single window of an electronic display, and displaying a price axis common to the displayed plurality of markets. In a preferred embodiment the electronic display is a computer monitor and the price axis is on the vertical axis of a graph within the single window displaying contract information for the plurality of markets.

Claims

1. A method for displaying multiple markets of a commodity trading exchange, said method comprising the steps of:

displaying a single window on an electronic display;

displaying information for a plurality of markets within the single window on the electronic display; and

displaying a price axis common to information displayed for each of the plurality of markets.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a market is defined by an exchange as a contract outright market.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a market is defined by an exchange as a contract strategy.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein a market is defined as a custom strategy, wherein multiple exchange defined markets are combined using a predefined algorithm to form a single displayable market.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the price axis is on a vertical axis of a graph within the single window.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein equivalent values of the price axis are located at the same vertical location within each of the displayed plurality of markets.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein market information for each of the displayed plurality of markets is displayed within a separate column.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein each separate column corresponds to a unique contract month.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein each of the displayed markets are for the same commodity contract.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

displaying a exchange selector.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

displaying a contract selector.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

displaying a market month selector; and

requesting market display information for a plurality of markets by selecting from among a list of markets provided by the market selector.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the displayed information includes commodity trading data for each displayed market.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising the steps of:

displaying bids within each displayed market;

displaying offer prices within each displayed market; and

displaying last trade price within each displayed market.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

displaying settlement price within each displayed market.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

displaying total trade volume for each displayed market.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

displaying market mode for each displayed market.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the information is displayed in a graph format.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the information is displayed in a bar graph format.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the information is displayed in a point graph format.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein each data point corresponds to an individual market trade.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein the multi-market display contains defined regions responsive to pointer action of a user interface cursor.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the pointer action results in an interface between the multi-market display and additional trading tools.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the trading tools support order routing.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising the steps of:

submitting an order;

revising an order; and

canceling an order.

26. The method of claim 23, wherein the trading tools include an order entry ticket.

27. The method of claim 23, wherein the trading tools include a single click trading depth of market window.

28. The method of claim 23, wherein the trading tools include displaying different interpretations of underlying market data related to a region being interacted with on the multi-market display.

29. A computer readable medium having program code recorded thereon for execution on a computer for displaying multiple markets of a commodity trading exchange, said program code causing a machine to execute the method comprising the steps of:

displaying a single window on an electronic display;

displaying trading information for a plurality of commodity markets within the single window on the electronic display; and

displaying a price axis common to the displayed trading information for each of the plurality of commodity markets.