Switch engine for risk position discovery in an electronic trading system

A method for risk portfolio management that enables switches between traders, comprising:

• receiving, at a central processing center of a electronic trading system, risk position portfolios associated with respective said traders;
• calculating, via said central processing center, relative positions for each of said risk position portfolios associated with respective said traders;
• anonymously presenting said relative positions to each of said traders, wherein anonymously presenting said relative positions comprises:
• determining, via said central processing center, potential switches between said traders of said relative positions of said traders based upon at least one of credit preferences of a first trader and credit preferences of a second trader;
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• presenting to said first trader at least one offsetting position in said risk position portfolio of said first trader which corresponds with a position in said risk position portfolio of said second trader representing one of said potential switches;
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• executing, via said central processing center, a switch between at least two of said traders based on said relative positions, wherein the switch comprises an exchange of (a) at least one financial instrument defining a financial risk position for (b) at least one financial instrument defining an opposite financial risk position.

A computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied in said medium for causing a switch between traders in response to execution by a computer of a central processing center of an electronic trading system, said computer-readable program code comprising:

• a first computer program instruction code configured to receive risk position portfolios associated with respective said traders;
• a second computer program instruction code configured to calculate relative positions for each of said risk position portfolios associated with respective said traders;
• a third computer program instruction code configured to anonymously present said relative positions to each of said traders, wherein said third computer program instruction code is further configured to determine potential switches between said traders of said relative positions of said traders based upon at least one of credit preferences of a first trader and credit preferences of a second trader, and wherein said third computer program instruction code is further configured to present to said first trader at least one offsetting position in said risk position portfolio of said first trader which corresponds with a position in said risk position portfolio of said second trader representing one of said potential switches;
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• fourth computer program instruction code configured to execute a switch between at least two of said traders based on said relative positions, wherein the switch comprises an exchange of (a) at least one financial instrument defining a financial risk position for (b) at least one financial instrument defining an opposite financial risk position.