Repositioning of market information on trading screens
AssigneeTrading Technologies International, Inc.
InventorBrian J. Buck
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Abstract
As market conditions descend or ascend an axis of prices, the display of market information is repositioned, at a pre-determined rate if desired, around an item of interest. An item of interest may include the best bid price, the best ask price, the inside market, a moving average, a last traded price, a theoretical value, the result of an equation, or some other item of interest to the trader. According to the present embodiments, market information may be displayed in a region relative to an axis of prices, and when an event occurs, a repositioning signal is initialized causing the axis to be repositioned such that the item of interest is positioned at a pre-determined location in the region. The price axis can be repositioned at a fixed rate or at a dynamically variable rate.
Claims23
A computer readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor cause the processor to carry out acts comprising:
- displaying a display region having a plurality of axially aligned price levels, where an item of interest is displayed along the plurality of axially aligned price levels according to a value of the item of interest;
- initiating repositioning of the plurality of axially aligned price levels in response to detecting a first change in the value of the item of interest;
- detecting a second change in the value of the item of interest subsequent to the first change in value of the item of interest and subsequent to initiating repositioning of the plurality of axially aligned price levels;
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- repositioning the plurality of axially aligned price levels based on the second change, where subsequent to repositioning the plurality of axially aligned price levels, the item of interest is displayed relative to a designated location in the display region.
A method for repositioning market information comprising:
- displaying, via a computer device, a display region having a plurality of axially aligned price levels, where an item of interest is displayed along the plurality of axially aligned price levels according to a value of the item of item of interest;
- initiating, via the computer device, repositioning of the plurality of axially aligned price levels in response to detecting a first change in the value of the item of interest;
- detecting, via the computer device, a second change in the value of the item of interest subsequent to the first change in value of the item of interest and subsequent to initiating repositioning of the plurality of axially aligned price levels;
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- repositioning, via the computer device, the plurality of axially aligned price levels based on the second change, where subsequent to repositioning the plurality of axially aligned price levels, the item of interest is displayed relative to a designated location in the display region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.