System and method for changing the view of a trading screen

• US 8,595,128 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2013
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
• Inventors: Triplett, Mark W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shrestha, Bijendra K
• Application Number:
  US13/775,243
• Publication Number:
  US 20130166435A1
• Time in Patent Office: 275 Days
• Field of Search: 705/37
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• 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

A trading screen displays market information, such as working orders, buy and sell orders, and other items of interest, in association with values on a value axis. Each item of interest is therefore displayed in relation to the value axis to provide a trader with an intuitive display of the market. In one embodiment, a user can select a location associated with a particular value on the trading screen and upon an selection, for example, by a click of the mouse button, the value axis is repositioned so that the selected value is moved to a predefined location. During which, market information is moved to new locations that are associated with their respective values on the value axis.

Claims

1. A method for repositioning market information comprising:

receiving, via a user input device of a computing device, a user input to identify a price level of a plurality of axially aligned price levels for a tradable object, the plurality of axially aligned price levels being displayed via an output device of the computing device; and

realigning at least a portion of the plurality of axially aligned price levels via the computing device, where the user-identified price level is repositioned to a predetermined location at a user identified repositioning rate.

2. The method of claim 1 where the plurality of axially aligned price levels comprises a static price axis.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving, via the user input device of the computing device, the predetermined location.

4. The method of claim 3 where the predetermined location comprises any of a predetermined number of price levels from the price level and a substantially center location.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying, via the output device, a best bid indicator and a best ask indicator relative to the plurality of axially aligned price levels.

6. The method of claim 5 where the best bid indicator identifies a best bid value for the tradable object and the best ask indicator identifies a best ask value for the tradable object.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising initiating submission of a trade order, via the computing device, in response to receiving a user selection of an order entry region associated with the plurality of axially aligned price levels.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer executable instructions stored thereon, which when executed by a processor cause the processor to carry out acts comprising:

receiving, via a user input device of a computing device, a user input to identify a price level of a plurality of axially aligned price levels for a tradable object, the plurality of axially aligned price levels being displayed via an output device of the computing device; and

realigning at least a portion of the plurality of axially aligned price levels via the computing device, where the user-identified price level is repositioned to a predetermined location at a user identified repositioning rate.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8 where the plurality of axially aligned price levels comprises a static price axis.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8 where the acts further comprise receiving, via the user input device of the computing device, the predetermined location.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8 where the predetermined location comprises any of a predetermined number of price levels from the price level and a substantially center location.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8 where the acts further comprise displaying, via the output device, a best bid indicator and a best ask indicator relative to the plurality of axially aligned price levels.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12 where the best bid indicator identifies a best bid value for the tradable object and the best ask indicator identifies a best ask value for the tradable object.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8 where the acts further comprise initiating submission of a trade order, via the computing device, in response to receiving a user selection of an order entry region associated with the plurality of axially aligned price levels.

15. A trading device comprising:

an electronic display having an electronic processor, the electronic display providing a plurality of axially aligned price levels for a tradable object, where in response to a user selection of a selected price level of the plurality of price levels, at least a portion of the plurality of price levels is repositioned with respect to the electronic display at a user-selected repositioning rate to a predetermined location.

16. The trading device of claim 15 where the user-selected repositioning rate is adjustable.

17. The trading device of claim 15 where the plurality of axially aligned price levels comprises a static price axis.

18. The trading device of claim 15 where the plurality of axially aligned price levels are provided according to market information for the tradable object.