System and method for optimizing order placement in an order queue in an electronic trading environment

• US 8,548,899 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2012
• Issued: 10/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
• Inventors: Prybell, Richard A. Jr., Levenberg, Peter A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Weisberger, Richard C
• Application Number:
  US13/553,985
• Publication Number:
  US 20120284171A1
• Time in Patent Office: 438 Days
• Field of Search: 705 35- 45
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

Abstract

Systems and methods for optimizing order placement in an electronic trading environment are provided. Global queue holder orders are placed in a tradeable object to reserve quantity for traders. Traders may submit order requests for quantity at price levels at which a global queue holder order is holding quantity. When a trader submits an order for a quantity at a price level at which quantity is being held, a gateway compares the order to the global queue holder order information stored in a database. If the trader'"'"'s order coincides with a price level at which quantity is held, then the gateway virtually transfers ownership of that quantity to the trader, who then assumes the advantageous queue position. When the quantity associated with the order is filled, the fill information is sent to the gateway, which to the database to determine which trader is associated with the filled order quantity.

Claims

1. A system including:

a computing device including a programmed processor,

wherein the programmed processor is configured to determine a plurality of global queue holder orders for a tradeable object, wherein each of the plurality of global queue holder orders includes a price and a quantity, wherein the plurality of global queue holder orders are determined based on at least one order placement parameter,

wherein the programmed processor is configured to submit the plurality of global queue holder orders to an electronic exchange,

wherein the programmed processor is configured to store an owner associated with each of the plurality of global queue holder orders, wherein the owner associated with each of the plurality of global queue holder orders is initially a default trader,

wherein the programmed processor is configured to receive an order request from a first trader, wherein the first trader is one of a group of traders, wherein the order request includes a price, wherein the price of the order request corresponds to the price of a first global queue holder order of the plurality of global queue holder orders, wherein the owner associated with the first global queue holder order is the default trader,

wherein the programmed processor is configured to transfer the owner associated with the first global queue holder order from the default trader to the first trader, and

wherein the programmed processor is configured to drop the order request once ownership has been transferred so that the order request is not forwarded onto the electronic exchange.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the at least one order placement parameters is a reference price, wherein the price of each of the plurality of global queue holder orders is determined based on the reference price.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the at least one order placement parameters is a number of price levels at which to place global queue holder orders.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the at least one order placement parameters is a number of global queue holder orders to place at each price level.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the at least one order placement parameters is a quantity parameter, wherein the quantity of each of the plurality of global queue holder orders is determined based on the quantity parameter.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the quantity parameter specifies that the quantity for each of the plurality of global queue holder orders is variable depending on the proximity to the reference price.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the quantity parameter specifies that the quantity for each of the plurality of global queue holder orders is constant.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the quantity parameter specifies that the quantity for each of the plurality of global queue holder orders is based on historical trading information.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the quantity parameter specifies that the quantity for each of the plurality of global queue holder orders is dynamic.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the at least one order placement parameters is a time of day when the plurality of global queue holder orders are placed at the electronic exchange.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of global queue holder orders are limit orders.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the programmed processor is further configured to:

submit an additional global queue holder order at a price corresponding to the price of the first global queue holder order once ownership has been transferred.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the programmed processor is further configured to:

detect a fill for one of the plurality of global queue holder orders, wherein the owner associated with the filled global queue holder order is the default trader; and

submit an offsetting order to offset the quantity of the filled global queue holder order, wherein the offsetting global queue holder order is a market order.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the programmed processor is further configured to:

display a graphical indicator representing the price at which one of the plurality of global queue holder orders has been placed.