Systems and methods for providing non-fully-transparent markets

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9679333-B2
Application number	US-74158207-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 27, 2007
Priority date	Apr 27, 2006
Publication date	Jun 13, 2017
Grant date	Jun 13, 2017

Abstract

Method and systems are provided herewith for providing non-fully-transparent markets that includes or involves the step or steps of receiving a request to reveal a bid or an offer, in which the request is submitted by a user of an electronic trading system; transmitting a price and a size that corresponds to the bid or the offer; waiting a pre-determined period of time; and executing the bid or the offer at a default price and a default size, in the event that the user does not submit a command to trade within the pre-determined period of time.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for facilitating electronic trading over a network with interfaces of computing devices, the method comprising:
receiving, via an interface of a computing device of an electronic trading system, a request to reveal a first price of a selected order having a first price and a second price associated with the order, in which the request is submitted by an interface of a remote computing device of a user of an electronic trading system;
transmitting, to a user on an interface of a remote computing device that is in communication with the interface of the computing device of the electronic trading system over a network, the first price and a size associated with the selected order;
determining, via the computing device of the electronic trading system, that the interface of the remote computing device of the user has not submitted a trading command responsive to the order within a pre-determined period of time; and
executing, via the computing device of the electronic trading system, the order at a default price and a default size.

2. The method of claim 1 , in which the default price and the default size comprise, respectively, the first price and the size transmitted in response to the user's request to reveal.

3. The method of claim 1 , in which the default price and the default size comprise, respectively, a price and a size that are pre-determined by the user.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprises:
determining that the user is not permitted to trade; and
denying the user's request to reveal.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprises:
transmitting an identity of the denied user to an originating user; and
receiving a request to permit the user previously denied to trade.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprises:
receiving a list of users that are permitted to trade on the electronic trading system, in which the list of permitted users are pre-determined based on previous transactions with each user.

7. The method of claim 1 , in which the first price comprises an original price and wherein the second price comprises a market price.

8. The method of claim 1 , in which the act of executing the order at a default price and a default size comprises executing the order at a default price and a default size responsive to determining that the user has not submitted a trading command responsive to the order within a pre-determined period of time.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
after transmitting to a user the first price and a size associated with the selected order, causing the first price and the size to be displayed at a display device of the remote device.

10. An apparatus for facilitating electronic trading over a network with interfaces of computing devices, the apparatus comprising:
a processor of a computing device of an electronic trading system; and
a memory, in which the memory stores instructions which, when executed by the processor of the computing device of the electronic trading system, direct the processor of the computing device of the electronic trading system to perform:
receiving, via an interface of a computing device of an electronic trading system, a request to reveal a first price of a selected order having a first price and a second price associated with the order, in which the request is submitted by an interface of a remote computing device of a user of an electronic trading system;
transmitting, to a user on an interface of a remote computing device that is in communication with the interface of the computing device of the electronic trading system over a network, the first price and a size associated with the selected order;
determining, via the computing device of the electronic trading system, that the interface of the computing system of the user has not submitted a trading command responsive to the order within a pre-determined period of time; and
executing, via the computing device of the electronic trading system, the order at a default price and a default size.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , in which the default price and the default size comprise, respectively, the first price and the size transmitted in response to the user's request to reveal.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 ,
in which the default price and the default size comprise, respectively, a price and a size that are pre-determined by the user.

13. The apparatus of claim 10 , in which the memory stores instructions which, when executed by the processor, direct the processor to perform:
determining that the user is not permitted to trade; and denying the user's request to reveal.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 , in which the memory stores instructions which, when executed by the processor, direct the processor to perform:
transmitting an identity of the denied user to an originating user; and receiving a request to permit the user previously denied to trade.

15. The apparatus of claim 10 , in which the memory stores instructions which, when executed by the processor, direct the processor to perform:
receiving a list of users that are permitted to trade on the electronic trading system, in which the list of permitted users are pre-determined based on previous transactions with each user.

16. The apparatus of claim 10 , in which the first price comprises an original price and wherein the second price comprises a market price.

17. The apparatus of claim 10 , in which the act of executing the order at a default price and a default size comprises executing the order at a default price and a default size responsive to determining that the user has not submitted a trading command responsive to the order within a pre-determined period of time.

18. The apparatus of claim 10 , in which the memory stores instructions which, when executed by the processor, further direct the processor to:
after transmitting to a user the first price and a size associated with the selected order, causing the first price and the size to be displayed at a display device of the remote device.

19. A method for facilitating electronic trading over a network with interfaces of computing devices, the method comprising:
receiving, via an interface of a computing device of an electronic trading system, a request to reveal a first price of a selected order having a first and a second price associated with the order, in which the request is submitted by an interface of a remote computing system of a user of an electronic trading system;
transmitting, to a user on an interface of a remote computing device that is in communication with the interface of the computing device of the electronic trading system over a network, the first price and a size associated with the selected order;
monitoring, via the computing device of the electronic trading system, the interface of the remote computing device of the user for a trading command responsive to the order within a pre-determined period of time;
receiving, via the interface of the computing device of the electronic trading system, a response trading command, in which the command to trade is submitted by the interface of the remote computing device within the pre-determined period of time and comprises, respectively, a price and a size specified by the user;
executing, via the computing device of the electronic trading system, the bid or the offer at the price and the size specified by the user in the command to trade, wherein the price and size specified by the user is not the first or the second price of the order;
transmitting an identity of the user t

Assignees

• Lutnick Howard W
• Bartko Peter
• Bgc Partners Inc

Inventors

• Lutnick Howard W
• Bartko Peter

Classifications

• G06Q30/08 Primary

  Auctions · CPC title

• G06Q40/04 Primary

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