Financial management system
First Claim
1. A method for enabling a user to interactively create and modify a model of an investment strategy to be appied to data items pertaining to a set of possible invesment entities, comprisingproviding a visual representation of a sequence of statements which describe manipulations using said data in accordance with said model of said investment strategy, a first result of the execution of said sequence of statements, when applied to said data, being one or more sets of statistics, each statistic arising from a combination of two or more items of data and being different from any items of data, a second result of the execution of said sequence of statements being a selection of one or more subsets of said set of possible investment entities based on said data and said statistics,providing a visual interface enabling the user to interactively enter and manipulate said sequence of statements to create and refine said model of said investment strategy, andenabling the user to execute said sequence of statements using said data to derive said sets of statistics and select said subsets of entities.
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Abstract
A method for enabling a user to interactively create and modify a model of an investment strategy to be applied to data pertaining to a set of possible investment entities. A graphical representation of a sequence of statements which describe data manipulations corresponding to the investment strategy is provided; the result of the sequence of statements, when applied to the data, is a selection of a subset of entities from the set of possible entities. The user is enabled to interactively enter and manipulate the statements and the sequence of statements via the graphical interface to alter the investment strategy. The user may "run" the strategy via the graphical interface, using the data to derive the subset of entities.
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1. A method for enabling a user to interactively create and modify a model of an investment strategy to be appied to data items pertaining to a set of possible invesment entities, comprising
providing a visual representation of a sequence of statements which describe manipulations using said data in accordance with said model of said investment strategy, a first result of the execution of said sequence of statements, when applied to said data, being one or more sets of statistics, each statistic arising from a combination of two or more items of data and being different from any items of data, a second result of the execution of said sequence of statements being a selection of one or more subsets of said set of possible investment entities based on said data and said statistics, providing a visual interface enabling the user to interactively enter and manipulate said sequence of statements to create and refine said model of said investment strategy, and enabling the user to execute said sequence of statements using said data to derive said sets of statistics and select said subsets of entities.
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