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

• US 8,484,114 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2012
• Issued: 07/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2003
• Status: Expired due to Term

• 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:
  US13/626,887
• Publication Number:
  US 20130024355A1
• Time in Patent Office: 286 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 non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein instructions executable by a processor, wherein the instructions are executable to:

display a data space using a tree-based structure including a plurality of trader nodes and a plurality of tradeable object nodes, wherein each tradeable object node in the plurality of tradeable object nodes is a sub-node of one of the plurality of trader nodes in the tree-based structure;

display 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;

display, for each tradeable object node of the plurality of tradeable object nodes, risk data related to the tradeable object node in a display cell corresponding to the trader node associated with the tradeable object node;

receive updated risk data related to a tradeable object node of the plurality of tradeable object nodes; and

update a display cell corresponding to the trader node associated with the tradeable object node for which the updated risk data was received.

2. The computer readable medium 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 computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the data space and the display grid are displayed adjacent to each other.

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

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

6. The computer readable medium 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 computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the instructions are further executable to:

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

8. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the risk data includes net position data.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the instructions are further executable to:

determine if there is an unhedged position based on the net position data; and

display an indicator in relation to a net position value to indicate the unhedged position.

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

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

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

13. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further executable to:

receive 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;

display the new trader node in the tree-based structure in the data space; and

display 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 computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further executable to:

receive a command to add a new tradeable object node to the tree-based structure, wherein the new tradeable object node is for a first trader node in the plurality of trader nodes, wherein the new tradeable object node was not in the plurality of tradeable object nodes;

display the new tradeable object node in the tree-based structure in the data space as a sub-node of the first trader node; and

display risk data related to the new tradeable object node within a display cell corresponding to the first trader node.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further executable to:

receive 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

update 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 computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the command is a drag-and-drop command.