System and method for performing automatic spread trading

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10699341-B2
Application number	US-201916563050-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 6, 2019
Priority date	Mar 5, 2002
Publication date	Jun 30, 2020
Grant date	Jun 30, 2020

Abstract

The present embodiments are provided to facilitate the automatic trading of spreads in a fast and accurate manner. One or more market data feeds that contain market information for tradable objects are received at an exchange. A spread data feed is generated in response to the market data feeds and from one or more spread setting parameters, which can be entered by a user. The spread data feed is preferably displayed in a spread window as bid and ask quantities associated with an axis or scale of prices. The user can enter orders in the spread window and the legs will be automatically worked to achieve, or attempt to achieve, the spread. In addition, other tools disclosed herein may be utilized to assist the user in making such trades.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein instructions executable by a processor, including instructions executable to:
receive a market data feed for a first tradeable object and a market data feed for a second tradeable object;
display a plurality of consecutive price levels along a price axis, where the plurality of consecutive price levels is determined according to the market data feed for the first tradeable object and the market data feed for the second tradeable object, and each price level of the plurality of consecutive price levels corresponds to a spread price for a spread between the first tradeable object and the second tradeable object;
display a plurality of locations where each location of the plurality of locations corresponds to a corresponding price level of the plurality of consecutive price levels displayed along the price axis and is configured to receive a command to initiate buying or selling the spread between the first tradeable object and the second tradeable object at the spread price corresponding to the price level;
receive from a user input device a user command to select a particular price level of the plurality of consecutive price levels to trade the spread between the first tradeable object and the second tradeable object at the spread price corresponding to the particular price level, where the user command includes selecting a particular location with a pointer of the user input device positioned over the particular location through a single action of the user input device;
determine a price for a first order for the first tradeable object according to the spread price corresponding to the particular price level and the market data feed for the second tradeable object;
submit to an electronic exchange, the first order for the first tradeable object;
determine, as the market data feed for the second tradeable object is received, a working price for the spread;
compare a price condition for the working price for the spread to a spread limit; and
submit a new order at a new price for the first tradeable object to the electronic exchange in response to the comparison of the price condition for the working price for the spread to the spread limit.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1 , further including instructions executable to:
determine the price for the first order based on the spread price and the market data feed for the second tradeable object at a first time; and
determine the working price based on the market data feed for the second tradeable object at a second time.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 2 , further including instructions executable to determine the new price based on the spread price and the market data feed for the second tradeable object at the second time.

4. The computer readable medium of claim 2 , further including instructions executable to determine the new price based on the spread price and the market data feed for the second tradeable object at a third time.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 1 , further including instructions executable to cause the first order to be cancelled in response to submitting the new order.

6. The computer readable medium of claim 1 , where the spread limit includes at least one of an inside price limit and an outside price limit.

7. The computer readable medium of claim 1 , further including instructions executable to cause a second order for the second tradeable object to be submitted to an exchange associated with the second tradeable object in response to receiving confirmation of execution of the first order.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 1 , where the comparison of the price condition for the working price for the spread to the spread limit includes determining whether the working price is outside the spread limit.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 1 , where the comparison of the price condition for the working price for the spread to the spread limit includes determining whether the working price is within the spread limit.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 1 , further including instructions executable to submit the new order to the electronic exchange in response to the price condition being satisfied.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 1 , further including instructions executable to automatically change the price of the first order only when a working spread price is outside of a range of prices determined by the spread price corresponding to the particular price level and a boundary parameter.

Assignees

• Pablo Llc
• Trading Technologies Int Inc

Inventors

• Kemp Ii Gary Allan
• Schluetter Jens-Uwe
• Burns Michael J
• Singer Scott F
• Monroe Fred
• Babulak David
• Brumfield Harris C

Classifications

• G06Q40/03

  Credit; Loans; Processing thereof · CPC title

• G06Q40/04 Primary

  Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange · CPC title

• G06Q40/06

  Asset management; Financial planning or analysis · CPC title

• G06Q30/0283

  Price estimation or determination · CPC title

• G06Q40/00

  Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes · CPC title