Dynamic price improvement
First Claim
1. A method for operating an electronic trading system for the exchange of instruments, the method comprising the steps of:
- in an electronic trading system designed to receive and store orders to buy and to sell instruments as submitted by parties, and to execute trades between matching buy and sell orders, stored buy and sell orders having order matching priority orderings relative to each other reflecting at least one attribute of the order in addition to price, the order matching priority ordering used by the electronic trading system to determine priority among orders for matching for execution;
receiving a dynamic price improvement order, being an order to buy or sell an identified instrument traded on the electronic trading system, whose order matching priority for execution against contraorders is maintained by the electronic trading system at least in part relative to earlier-submitted orders on the same side of the market by adjusting a price associated with the dynamic price improvement order;
receiving orders contra to the dynamic price improvement order, and matching the contra orders to the stored orders on the same side of the market as the dynamic price improvement order, the dynamic price improvement order being matched to the contra orders with the order matching priority relative to other orders as maintained by the electronic trading system.
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Abstract
A system and method is provided to enable traders to price improve on an item at an amount less than a predetermined pricing increment. Traders can improve on the price of the item using different price improvement levels (e.g., four different levels). Dynamic price improvement enables a dynamic order to maintain a predetermined position in a trading stack relative to other orders in the stack. The dynamic order may maintain its position in the trading stack by adjusting (e.g., increasing or decreasing) its price improvement level depending on market conditions. For example, a dynamic order may increases its price improvement level such that it stays at least one level ahead of the next best order in the trading stack. If the level cannot be further increased, the dynamic order may use its timestamp to maintain its position in the stack.
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30 Claims
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1. A method for operating an electronic trading system for the exchange of instruments, the method comprising the steps of:
in an electronic trading system designed to receive and store orders to buy and to sell instruments as submitted by parties, and to execute trades between matching buy and sell orders, stored buy and sell orders having order matching priority orderings relative to each other reflecting at least one attribute of the order in addition to price, the order matching priority ordering used by the electronic trading system to determine priority among orders for matching for execution; receiving a dynamic price improvement order, being an order to buy or sell an identified instrument traded on the electronic trading system, whose order matching priority for execution against contraorders is maintained by the electronic trading system at least in part relative to earlier-submitted orders on the same side of the market by adjusting a price associated with the dynamic price improvement order; receiving orders contra to the dynamic price improvement order, and matching the contra orders to the stored orders on the same side of the market as the dynamic price improvement order, the dynamic price improvement order being matched to the contra orders with the order matching priority relative to other orders as maintained by the electronic trading system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A electronic trading system for the exchange of instruments, the system comprising at least one processor, the processor or processors of the system being configured to:
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receive and store orders to buy and to sell instruments as submitted by parties, the stored buy and sell orders having order matching priority orderings relative to each other reflecting at least one attribute of the order in addition to price, the order matching priority used by the electronic trading system to determine order matching priority among orders for matching for execution; receive a dynamic price improvement order, being an order to buy or sell an identified an instrument traded on the electronic trading system, whose order matching priority for execution against contraorders is maintained by the electronic trading system at least in part relative to earlier-submitted orders on the same side of the market by adjusting a price associated with the dynamic price improvement order; and receive orders contra to the dynamic price improvement order, and match the contra order to the stored orders on the same side of the market as the dynamic price improvement order, the dynamic price improvement order being matched to the contra orders with the order matching priority relative to other orders as maintained by the electronic trading system. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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