Distributed trading network and interface

A distributed trading platform comprising:

• a first participant system of a liquidity provider, comprising:
• a first computing device;
• a first network interface;
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• a first non-transitory medium having stored there a plurality of instructions that when executed by the first computing device cause the first participant system to:
• receive, in response to input into a first trader interface and through the first communication link, an aggression level for use in processing orders through the distributed trading platform;
• in response to receiving the aggression level, transmit the aggression level to a central system of the distributed trading platform;
• determine, by communicating through the first network link with a first order management system of the liquidity provider, a first order that is stored in the first order management system and that is identified for processing by the distributed trading platform, in which the first order is for a first side of a trade for a first quantity of a financial instrument;
• in response to determining the first order, transmit, through the first communication link, the first order to the central system;
• receive, through the first network link from the central system, a contra order, in which the contra order is for a second side of the trade for a third quantity of the financial instrument;
• in response to receiving the contra order, reserve, by communicating through the first network link with the first order management system, the third quantity of the financial instrument;
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• in response to reserving the third quantity of the financial instrument, transmit, through the first network link to the central system, an indication that the third quantity of the financial instrument is reserved;
• the central system of the distributed trading platform, comprising:
• a second computing device;
• a second network interface;
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• a second non-transitory medium having stored there a plurality of instructions that when executed by the second computing device cause the central system to:
• receive, through the second communication link, market data regarding the financial instrument;
• receive, through the second communication link from the first participant system, the aggression level;
• in response to receiving the aggression level, store the aggression level for use in determining prices;
• receive, through the second communication link from the first participant system, the first order;
• in response to receiving the first order, determine a plurality of second orders based on the first order, the aggression level and the market data, in which the plurality of second orders include a ladder of orders each with different quantities and different price deviations from a market price such that the price deviation from the market price increases in favor of the liquidity provider as the quantity increases, in which each order of the plurality of orders includes a respective minimum fill parameter and a respective maximum contra display parameter such that the ladder of orders includes no orders that have an overlapping range of minimum fill parameter and maximum contra display parameter;
• in response to determining the plurality of second orders, transmit the plurality of second orders to a plurality of participant systems of a plurality of liquidity takers;
• receive, through the second network link and from a second participant system of the plurality of participant systems of a liquidity taker of the plurality of liquidity takers, the contra order;
• in response to receiving the contra order, transmit the contra order, through the second network link to the first participant system;
• receive, through the second network link and from the first participant system, the indication that the third quantity of the financial instrument is reserved in the first order management system;
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• in response to receiving the indication that the third quantity of the financial instrument is reserved, facilitate execution of an exchange that fulfills at least a part of each of the contra order and a single second order of the plurality of second orders that the liquidity taker is qualified to view and;
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• the second participant system of the plurality of participant systems of the liquidity taker of the plurality of liquidity takers, comprising:
• a third computing device;
• a third network interface;
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• a third non-transitory medium having stored there a plurality of instructions that when executed by the third computing device cause the second participant system to:
• determine, by communicating through the third network link with a second order management system of the liquidity taker, that the contra order is stored in the second order management system,
• receive, through the third network link and from the central system, the plurality of second orders;
• in response to receiving the plurality of second orders, determine the single second order of the plurality of second orders that the liquidity taker is qualified to view based on the third quantity of the contra order, in which the single second order includes the second order in the ladder of orders that has a minimum fill parameter equal to or below the third quantity and has a maximum contra display parameter equal to or greater than the third quantity;
• in response to determining the single second order, populate, through the third communication link, a second trader interface with information soliciting submission of the contra order to the distributed trading platform for matching with the single second order;
• receive, from the second trader interface through the third communication link, submission of the contra order to the distributed trading platform for matching with the single second order;
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• in response to receiving submission of the contra order, reserve, by communicating through the third network link with the second order management system, the contra order in the second order management system and transmit, through the third network link, the contra order to the central system.