System and method for linking and managing linked orders in an electronic trading environment

• US 8,688,565 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2010
• Issued: 04/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Trading Technologies International, Inc.
• Inventors: Andrews, Ryan, Mintz, Sagy P., Chawla, Jyoti, Garrison, David W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lemieux, Jessica
• Application Number:
  US12/910,617
• Publication Number:
  US 20110035312A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,257 Days
• Field of Search: 705/37
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange

Abstract

A system and method for linking and managing linked orders are described. According to one method, a trader may first link two or more orders into a linked order, and then one or more parameters associated with one of the orders may be dynamically changed based on user inputs or information being received from an exchange. For example, a trader may link any two orders as an order cancel order, and each linked order may be associated with the same or different tradable objects, order quantities, and may be submitted to one or more exchanges. The order quantities may be then dynamically updated based on updates being received from the one or more exchanges and further based on a quantity ratio between the two orders. Further, the linked order may be submitted upon detecting a fill for another order.

Claims

1. An electronically traded object order management system comprising:

an order submission module configured to substantially simultaneously submit a first order to a first electronic exchange for a first quantity of a first tradeable object at a first price, and in response, submit a second order to a second electronic exchange for a second quantity of a second tradeable object at a second price, the second quantity being set according to a predetermined quantity relationship between the second quantity and the first quantity, where the submitted first order is pending at the first electronic exchange for the first tradeable object and the second order pending at the second electronic exchange for to the second tradeable object; and

a synthetic order manager configured to adjust at least one order parameter associated with the submitted second order at the second electronic exchange in response to detecting a change in at least one order parameter for the submitted first order.

2. The system of claim 1, where the synthetic order manager is further configured to decrease the second quantity in response to detecting a fill update associated with the first order and the predetermined quantity relationship.

3. The system of claim 1, where the synthetic order manager is further configured to change the first quantity associated of the submitted first order, and the second quantity for the submitted second order in response to a user command.

4. The system of claim 1, where the synthetic order manager is further configured to dynamically change a second price in response to a user command.

5. The system of claim 1, where the first and second orders comprise an order cancel order pair.

6. The system of claim 1, where the synthetic order manager is further configured to receive a fill associated with a third order and to determine an order quantity for the first order and the second order based on the received fill associated with the third order.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the synthetic order manager is further configured to update at least one order parameter for the first order in response to market information.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein a tradeable object traded at the first electronic exchange and a tradeable object traded at the second electronic exchange comprise different tradeable objects.