Method and system for electronically inputting, monitoring and trading spreads

• US 7,617,149 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2006
• Issued: 11/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rosenthal Collins Group LLC (Marex Spectron Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Rosenthal Collins Group LLC (Marex Spectron Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Rosenthal, Leslie, Collins, J. Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheung; Mary
• Application Number:
  US11/443,578
• Publication Number:
  US 20060271468A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,260 Days
• Field of Search: 705 35- 37, 715/200, 715/243, 715/700, 345/1.1
• US Class Current: 705/37
• 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

Abstract

A method and system for providing dynamic display of electronic trading information for trading spreads. The method and system allow pre-determined and trader defined spreads to be input and one or more trades for the spreads to be automatically executed on one or more trading exchanges. The method and system also allows monitoring of the spreads from one or more graphical windows on a graphical user interface.

Claims

1. A method for automatically executing trading spreads, comprising:

presenting a list of a plurality of names of a plurality of pre-determined spreads graphical user interface on an application on a target device with one or more processors, wherein the pre-determined spreads include intra-commodity spreads, inter-commodity spreads, option spreads, crack spreads, butterfly spreads, vertical spreads, horizontal spreads, ratio spreads, back spreads, front spreads, inter-exchange spreads, different commodities spreads, synthetic spreads and trader defined spreads;

receiving a selection input for a pre-determined spread from the list of names;

presenting one or more graphical windows via the application to accept trading information for the selected pre-determined spread;

automatically executing two or more trades on one or more trading exchanges using the accepted trading information to execute the pre-determined spread via the application on the target device, wherein trading information for the pre-determined spread is displayed in an Aggregated Book View (ABV) graphical window that displays trading prices via a dynamic price column in market depth format,

wherein the ABV window includes an order entry mode for entering two or more trades for the pre-determined spread;

automatically and dynamically re-centering the dynamic price column in the ABV window upon a current last traded price that automatically, continuously and dynamically changes with price fluctuations in the current last traded price.

2. A computer readable medium having stored therein a plurality of instructions for causing one or more processors to execute the steps of the method of claim 1.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of presenting a list of names includes presenting a list of names from a Spread window.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of presenting a list of names includes presenting a list of names from an Aggregated Book View (ABV) Window or an Order Ticket window.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of presenting one or more graphical windows includes presenting one or more Aggregated Book View (ABV) Windows or one or more Order Ticket windows.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein selected ones of the pre-determined spreads include one or more slippage factors to automatically execute a secondary trade if a primary trade is missed.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein selected ones of the pre-determined spreads include a configurable duration portion to create one-to-one trading durations, multi-to-one and one-to-multi trading durations.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of presenting a list of a plurality of names includes presenting a list of a plurality of names for pre-determined spreads for real and synthetic trading entities.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the trading information includes a pre-determined trading strategy comprising if-then trading strategies, one-cancels-other (OCO) trading strategies, combinations of buys and sells, combinations of puts and calls, or execution of trades based on previously executed trades.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a pre-determined trading strategy for a pre-determined spread on the application on the target device, wherein the pre-determined trading strategy is automatically received from a spreadsheet, wherein the spreadsheet includes pre-determined formulas or spreadsheet macros used to define the pre-determined trading strategy;

receiving trading information for executing two or more electronic trades for the pre-determined spread via one or more graphical windows via a graphical user interface, wherein the trading information is automatically received from the spreadsheet;

receiving two or more sets of electronic trading information from one or more electronic trading exchanges including trading information for the two or more electronic trades created for the pre-determined spread;

automatically executing selected ones of the two or more electronic trades for the pre-determined spread on one or more electronic trading exchanges to execute one or more portions of the pre-determined spread; and

displaying results of the pre-determined spread on the graphical user interface, wherein results of executing one or more portions of the pre-determined spread are automatically stored back in the spreadsheet, wherein the spreadsheet is dynamically used by the application for automatically receiving the pre-determined trading strategy and automatically receiving the trading information again.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the pre-determined trading strategy includes if-then trading strategies, one-cancels-other (OCO) trading strategies, combinations of buys and sells, combinations of puts and calls, or execution of trades based on previously executed trades for the pre-determined spread.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein the pre-determined spreads include intra-commodity spreads, inter-commodity spreads, option spreads, crack spreads, butterfly spreads, vertical spreads, horizontal spreads, ratio spreads, back spreads, front spreads, inter-exchange spreads, different commodities spreads, synthetic spreads and trader defined spreads.

13. The method of claim 10 wherein the step receiving a pre-determined trading strategy includes receiving a pre-determined trading strategy from a data file or via manual inputs.

14. The method of claim 10 wherein the step of displaying results of the pre-determined spread includes displaying results of trading the pre-determined spread in colors different than other types of trades displayed on the graphical user interface.

15. The method of claim 10 wherein the step of displaying results of the pre-determined spread includes displaying a graphical spread Profit and Loss (P&

L) display.

16. The method of claim 10 wherein the step of displaying results of the pre-determined spread includes displaying results in a spreadsheet or a data file.

17. The method of claim 10 wherein the pre-determined spread includes pre-determined spreads for real and synthetic trading entities.

18. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving one or more selection inputs in the ABV window to move the dynamic price column up or down for placement around a new desired trading price away from the current last traded price;

automatically and dynamically moving the dynamic price column in the ABV window from the new desired trading price until the current last traded price is again re-centered on the dynamic price column in the ABV window; and

displaying a visual indicator in the ABV window to indicate the dynamic price column is being automatically and dynamically re-centered around the current last traded price in the ABV window, wherein the visual indicator changes colors during the automatic and dynamic re-centering.

19. A system for automatically executing trading spreads, comprising in combination:

means for receiving a pre-determined trading strategy for a pre-determined spread on an application on a target device with one or more processors, wherein the pre-determined trading strategy is automatically received from a spreadsheet, wherein the spreadsheet includes pre-determined formulas or spreadsheet macros used to define the pre-determined trading strategy, for receiving trading information for executing two or more electronic trades for the pre-determined spread via one or more graphical windows via a graphical user interface, and means for receiving two or more sets of electronic trading information from one or more electronic trading exchanges including trading information for the two or more electronic trades created for the pre-determined spread, wherein the pre-determined spread include intra-commodity spreads, inter-commodity spreads, option spreads, crack spreads, butterfly spreads, vertical spreads, horizontal spreads, ratio spreads, back spreads, front spreads, inter-exchange spreads, different commodities spreads, synthetic spreads and trader defined spreads;

means for automatically executing the electronic trades for the pre-determined spread on one or more electronic trading exchanges to execute one or more portions of the pre-determined spread; and

means for displaying results of the pre-determined spread on the graphical user interface, wherein trading information for the pre-determined spread is displayed in an Aggregated Book View (ABV) graphical window that displays trading prices via a dynamic price column in a market depth format, for automatically and dynamically re-centering the dynamic price column in the ABV window upon a current last traded price for the pre-determined spread or centered upon current last traded prices for the two or more trades that were used to create the spread, wherein the dynamic price column automatically, continuously and dynamically changes with price fluctuations in the current last traded price and wherein results of executing one or more portions of the pre-determined spread are automatically stored back in the spreadsheet, wherein the spreadsheet is dynamically used by the application for automatically receiving the pre-determined trading strategy and automatically receiving the trading information again.