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System, method and computer program product for using a non-price accounting data based index to determine financial objects to purchase or to sell

  • US 8,380,604 B2
  • Filed: 06/19/2010
  • Issued: 02/19/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of determining financial objects to purchase or to sell by a programmed computer using a non-price accounting data based index (ADBI) comprising:

  • using, by at least one computer, the non-price accounting data based index (ADBI),wherein the non-price ADBI was constructed, by at least one computer processor, by at least selecting non-price ADBI constituents by at least one non-price accounting data, and by at least weighting said the non-price ADBI constituents by at least one non-priced accounting data,isolating, by the at least one computer, outperformance of the non-price ADBI, wherein said isolating;

    determining, by at least one computer processor, overlapping financial objects appearing in both a portfolio constructed using the accounting based index (ADBI) and a portfolio constructed using a conventionally weighted index by comparing said portfolios;

    wherein said portfolios are stored in at least one storage medium;

    wherein said conventionally weighted index comprises an index weighted based on at least one of capitalization, equal weighting, or share price weighting; and

    wherein the non-price ADBI comprises selecting and weighting, by the at least one computer processor, based on at least one non-price accounting data based measure and not based on any of capitalization, equal weighting, and share price weighting;

    comparing, by the at least one computer processor, weightings of said overlapping financial objects in said ADBI with weightings of said overlapping financial objects in said conventionally weighted index; and

    determining, by the least one computer processor, at least one financial object to purchase or to sell based on said comparing.

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