System and method for displaying risk data in an electronic trading environment

• US 8,311,919 B2
• Filed: 05/10/2012
• Issued: 11/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
• Inventors: West, Robert A., Burns, Michael J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Norman, Samica L
• Application Number:
  US13/468,637
• Publication Number:
  US 20120226597A1
• Time in Patent Office: 187 Days
• Field of Search: 705/35, 705/36.R, 705/37, 707/103.R, 715/804, 715/738
• US Class Current: 705/35
• 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

An example graphical interface and method for displaying risk related data are described. One example graphical interface includes a data structure comprising a plurality of data nodes and at least one risk data point associated with each node, and further comprises a display grid. The display grid includes one or more cells that are used for displaying selected data nodes and risk data points. Each cell may be associated with a single data node, and may include one or more identifiers corresponding to risk data points of the data node. In one example embodiment, the identifiers are aligned along a single axis, and risk related data corresponding to each identifier is aligned with respect to each corresponding identifier.

Claims

1. A method including:

displaying by a client device a data space using a tree-based structure including a plurality of trader nodes and a plurality of tradable object nodes, wherein each tradable object node in the plurality of tradable object nodes is a sub-node of one of the plurality of trader nodes in the tree-based structure;

displaying by the client device a display grid including a plurality of display cells, wherein each trader node in the plurality of trader nodes is mapped to a different display cell, wherein the plurality of display cells are arranged on a common axis in an order corresponding to an order of the plurality of trader nodes in the data space;

displaying by the client device, for each tradable object node of the plurality of tradable object nodes, risk data related to the tradable object node in a display cell corresponding to the trader node associated with the tradable object node;

receiving by the client device updated risk data related to a tradable object node of the plurality of tradable object nodes; and

updating by the client device a display cell corresponding to the trader node associated with the tradable object node for which the updated risk data was received.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each trader node in the plurality of trader nodes is a sub-node of one of a plurality of account nodes in the tree-based structure.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the data space and the display grid are displayed adjacent to each other.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the common axis is one of a horizontal axis and a vertical axis.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the risk data includes profit/loss (P/L) data.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the P/L data includes at least one of a current P/L value, a high P/L value, and a low P/L value during a predetermined time period.

7. The method of claim 6, further including:

displaying by the client device in a display cell in the plurality of display cells a thermometer display indicating a current P/L value associated with a tradable object node corresponding to the display cell in relation to high and low P/L values for the tradable object node during the predetermined time period.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the risk data includes net position data.

9. The method of claim 8, further including:

determining by the client device if there is an unhedged position based on the net position data; and

displaying by the client device an indicator in relation to a net position value to indicate the unhedged net position.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the risk data is received from at least one electronic exchange.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the risk data is displayed using numeric values.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the risk data is displayed using graphical bars.

13. The method of claim 1, further including:

receiving by the client device a command to add a new trader node to the tree-based structure, wherein the new trader node was not in the plurality of trader nodes;

displaying by the client device the new trader node in the tree-based structure in the data space; and

displaying by the client device a new display cell in the display grid, wherein the new display cell was not in the plurality of display cells, wherein the new trader node is mapped to the new display node, wherein the new display node is arranged on the common axis in an order corresponding to an order of both the plurality of trader nodes and the new trader node in the data space.

14. The method of claim 1, further including:

receiving by the client device a command to add a new tradable object node to the tree-based structure, wherein the new tradable object node is for a first trader node in the plurality of trader nodes, wherein the new tradable object node was not in the plurality of tradable object nodes;

displaying by the client device the new tradable object node in the tree-based structure in the data space as a sub-node of the first trader node; and

displaying by the client device risk data related to the new tradable object node within a display cell corresponding to the first trader node.

15. The method of claim 1, further including:

receiving by the client device a command from a user input device to select a trader node in the tree-based structure and move the selected trader node to a new location in the tree-based structure in the data space; and

updating by the client device the arrangement on the common axis of the plurality of display cells based on the new location of the selected trader node in the data space.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the command is a drag-and-drop command.