Order risk management for derivative products

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9607338-B2
Application number	US-201414153801-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 13, 2014
Priority date	Mar 10, 2003
Publication date	Mar 28, 2017
Grant date	Mar 28, 2017

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for processing derivative product orders at an exchange. Traders provide derivative product order risk data to the exchange. The order risk data may include maximum delta, gamma and/or vega utilization values for derivative product contracts based on the same underlying product. Before executing a trade, a match system analyzes the trader's current utilization state and the utilization that would result after the trade. The match system may then execute all or a portion of the trade.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of protecting against in-flight fills at an exchange, the method comprising:
(a) receiving, at a processor of an order risk management module, derivative product order risk data including at least one threshold value corresponding to at least one order risk parameter;
(b) receiving, at the processor of the order risk management module from a computing device of a trader an order for a derivative product that has a variable defined order price;
(c) at the processor of the order risk management module, utilizing the derivative product order and a trader's current order risk utilization state to calculate utilization data, wherein the utilization data is calculated using the derivative product order and the trader's current order risk utilization state; and
(d) processing the derivative product order at the processor of the order risk management module in a manner that is a function of the derivative product order risk data and the utilization data, wherein the processing comprises determining that the trader's current order risk utilization state exceeds a threshold value, and then cancelling all of the trader's resting orders at the exchange to protect against in-flight fills;
wherein the variable defined order price of the derivative product is a function of an original order price, an updated price of an underlying product and at least one price determination variable value based on a predetermined formula.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein (d) comprises executing a portion of the derivative product order.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the portion of the derivative product order includes the maximum number of contracts that do not cause the utilization data to exceed the threshold value.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the portion of the derivative product order includes the minimum number of contracts that cause the utilization data to exceed the threshold value.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the portion of the derivative product order includes the maximum number of trading units that do not cause the utilization data to exceed the threshold value.

6. The method of claim 2 , wherein the portion of the derivative product order includes the minimum number of trading units that cause the utilization data to exceed the threshold value.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein (d) comprises canceling the order if the trader's order risk utilization state after executing the entire order would cause the threshold value to be exceeded.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one order risk parameter comprises delta.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the derivative product order risk data received in (a) includes at least two threshold values corresponding to at least two order risk parameters.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the at least two order risk parameters comprise delta and gamma.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the derivative product order risk data received in (a) includes at least three threshold values corresponding to at least three order risk parameters.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the at least three order risk parameters comprise delta, gamma and vega.

13. The method of claim 1 , further including comparing the order risk data to maximum and minimum rules set by the exchange.

14. The method of claim 1 , further including receiving from the trader offset data for the derivative product order risk data and (d) comprises processing the derivative product order in a manner that is a function of the at least one threshold value, the utilization data and the offset data.

Assignees

• Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc

Inventors

• Salvadori David
• Falck John
• Troxel Jr Charlie
• Farrell James
• Thiruthuvadoss Agnes Shanthi
• Ariathurai Arjuna
• Johnston Scott

Classifications

• G06Q30/0601

  Electronic shopping [e-shopping] · CPC title

• G06Q40/06

  Asset management; Financial planning or analysis · CPC title

• G06Q40/00

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

• G06Q30/0283

  Price estimation or determination · CPC title

• G06Q40/04 Primary

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