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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130883 | POSITION-KEEPING IN A MULTI-MARKET ENVIRONMENT A computerized method of implementing position-keeping in a multi-market environment is described herein. The method comprises identifying a plurality of instrument transaction parameters based on a universal instrument ID of at least one instrument. The instrument tran... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130880 | Systems and Methods for Product-Level and Contract-Level Risk Computations and Management Various systems and methods are described herein for product-level and contract-level risk checks. The product-level and contract-level risk checks are used to either allow or prevent a trading strategy to proceed. When a trading strategy is initiated, quoting and hedge... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130884 | EMBEDDED HARDWARE BASED SYSTEM WHICH PROVIDES REAL-TIME PRE-TRADE RISK ASSESSMENTS FOR MULTIPLE PARTIES AND METHOD THEREOF A risk assessment system and method are provided that may be implemented as an embedded hardware based system and method that provide real-time pre-trade risk assessments for multiple parties, in addition to real-time market data and trading connectivity to a variety of... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130881 | Social Network for Traders of Stocks and Other Securities A database may be used to aggregate indications of user intent to purchase or sell financial securities. This database may be accessed using mobile devices or client computers to thereby input user intent to purchase or sell financial securities. These inputs may be agg... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130882 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING AND TRADING STRIPS OF FINANCIAL PRODUCTS The present invention includes a method comprising receiving a first electronic BUY STRIP order; receiving a second electronic SELL STRIP order; matching the first STRIP order with the second STRIP order, wherein the first STRIP order is a contra order to the second STR... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109811 | System and Method for Activity Based Margining A system and method for factoring in a trader's trading activity into the margin requirements is disclosed. In the securities arena, day traders are assessed different margins than non-day-traders, however, the specific profile of the trader is analyzed (that is, the sa... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109812 | System and Method for Use in Auditing Financial Transactions A data processing system that records detailed market information for one or more financial markets to facilitate the audit of executed trades for time, quantity, and price as being reasonable. The system receives and records data from financial markets, including the d... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109810 | System and Method for Selectively Displaying Market Information Related to a Plurality of Tradeable Objects A graphical interface and method are provided for selectively displaying market information corresponding to a plurality of tradeable objects. According to one example method, a scanning feature is provided in relation to a number of tradeable object indicators. Upon de... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109809 | MIDPRICE TRADING WITHIN A SPREAD MARKET A system and method is provided to allow traders to submit midprice orders to trade at a price within a spread of a market, preferably at the midpoint of a spread market, while maintaining anonymity of the midprice order. A midprice order is anonymous because other trad... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109705 | DATA CENTER SYSTEM THAT ACCOMMODATES EPISODIC COMPUTATION A data center system is described which includes multiple data centers powered by multiple power sources, including any combination of renewable power sources and on-grid utility power sources. The data center system also includes a management system for managing execut... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109846 | WEIGHTED CURRENCY PORTFOLIO AND INDEX A computerized method and apparatus, involving a focus currency and a group of currencies other than the focus currency which define non-focus currencies, involves calculating weights for each of the non-focus currencies and performing a covariance adjustment to the wei... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109813 | System and Method for Assisted Awareness A data feed is monitored to determine whether a condition is satisfied. If the condition is satisfied, an alert is initiated to attract a user's attention. Thereafter, playback mode is entered causing the example system to playback a short period of time-compressed data... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109808 | PERIODIC RESET TOTAL RETURN INDEX FUTURES CONTRACTS A periodic reset total return index may be based on a standard index, such as an equity index. The value of the periodic reset total return index may be the sum of the standard index plus the income flow generated by the index, such as dividends generated by stocks. The... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084190 | Systems and Methods for Using a Stacker Order in an Electronic Trading Environment A stacker order type is provided for a spread trading strategy. According to an example embodiment, when a stacker order is enter to buy or sell a spread at a desired spread price, a trading tool dynamically determines a plurality of desired spread prices at which to wo... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084193 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING GLOBAL WARMING A closed end financial instrument for the monetization of greenhouse gases is disclosed. The closed end security has unique features providing for the securitization of greenhouse gas reductions (e.g., avoidance, sequestration, transformation) on global and sub-global s... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084194 | Controlling Markets During a Stop Loss Trigger A system mitigates market spike effects caused by conditional ordering triggering and election in an automated matching system. The system monitors trading as a result of cascading triggering of conditional orders. When an order is executed beyond a predetermined price ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084192 | System and Method for Coordinated Sales and Implementation of Financial Products Systems and methods for the coordinated sales and implementation of financial products are disclosed. In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an apparatus may include a network interface and a processor coupled to the network interface. The network int... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084229 | Computerized method for generating and maintaining a leveraged or reverse exchange traded product A computer implemented method for maintaining a leveraged or reverse exchange traded product is provided which includes electronically monitoring, with a computer, a change in value of a product sold on an exchange, ECN, or ATS; and calculating, with a computer, a lever... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084228 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING PARTIALLY UNSTRUCTURED DATA A system and method for processing partially unstructured data relating to a financial security. The system and method resolve first- and second-identifying data from the partially unstructured data and determine whether a security is defined by the first-identifying da... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084191 | Sticky Order Routers A sticky order routing system may include multiple order routers in communication with an electronic exchange for communicating transaction messages. Each of the order routers communicates transaction messages between multiple associated trading sessions and the electro... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084195 | MULTIPLE QUOTE RISK MANAGEMENT The disclosed systems and methods relate to allowing trading of over the counter (“OTC”) foreign exchange (“FX”) contracts on a centralized matching and clearing mechanism, such as that of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's (“CME”'s) futures exchange system (... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120083930 | ADAPTIVE LOAD MANAGEMENT: A SYSTEM FOR INCORPORATING CUSTOMER ELECTRICAL DEMAND INFORMATION FOR DEMAND AND SUPPLY SIDE ENERGY MANAGEMENT A method for determining an amount of electricity to purchase includes determining electrical power consumption characteristics of an electrical load at an end user of the electricity. A preference of the end user for an output of the electrical load is ascertained. The... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072329 | ELECTRONIC QUANTITY PURCHASING SYSTEM Disclosed is an electronic quantity purchasing system which is a host computer that a user may access to purchase quantities of goods or services at a locked-in price for later redemption. The preferred communication means employed is via secure, high-speed Internet acc... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072330 | TRADE EXECUTION METHODS AND SYSTEMS One embodiment of the present invention relates to securities trading using electronic systems. Another embodiment of the present invention relates to a computer implemented trade execution method, comprising: sending from an execution venue to each of a plurality of sm... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072326 | Smart Trade Template Based Matching Systems and methods for matching orders are provided. One or more trade templates are created. The trade templates define groups of orders for financial instruments that may be combined such that all of the orders are matched. A collection of tradable price levels is al... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072331 | System and Method for Monitoring Trades Outside of a No-Bust Range in an Electronic Trading System An alert system that notifies an Exchange's staff of a trade appearing to be outside an expected market range of prices includes determination logic which derives, based on data received from an input device, a theoretical no-bust range of prices, i.e. prices above and ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072246 | Efficient Market For Financial Products A data processing system is disclosed that provides an efficient market for financial products in which statistics regarding a plurality of stored data records containing financial product underwriting standards are calculated, stored in a data storage device, then made... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072332 | Public Offering Risk Management The present invention provides an auction system that allows IPO sales to be offered in an open and transparent manner, wherein, a certain percentage (up to 100%) of shares in an IPO can be offered to qualified bidders at a “buy now” pre-auction price, set by an iss... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072327 | AUTOMATED TRADING SYSTEM FOR ROUTING AND MATCHING ORDERS An automated system for routing orders in an exchange configured for trading securities or derivatives is disclosed. The system includes an electronic trade engine operative to receive an order from an originating firm, the order including a designation specifying a pre... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072328 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING PARITY ON CLOSE ORDERS An automated system for creating parity on close orders in an exchange configured for trading securities or derivatives is disclosed including an electronic trade engine operative to receive an order for a security or derivative at the exchange, the trade engine further... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072333 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AND/OR ANALYZING A LIMIT ORDER BOOK Various systems and methods for determining information about limit orders is provided. Data regarding a plurality of limit orders entered onto an electronic market is received and stored. For each of a subset of the plurality of limit orders, a market distance is deter... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072370 | Financial instrument In accordance with the principles of the present invention, a financial instrument and method is provided. At least two open-ended funds having settlement prices are identified. An index value is created relating to the settlement prices of the at least two open-ended f... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054083 | System And Method For Business To Investor Exchange For Raising Capital And For Creating A Secondary Market For Private Equity The present invention creates a secondary market in private equities by auctioning venture-backed private equities over the Internet to qualified investors. Typical sources for the private equities will be interests in limited partnerships and pre-IPO or pulled-IPO secu... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054084 | Delta Neutral Futures Allocation In an Exchange which assigns only a whole number/integer representation of a computed number of futures contracts to a covered order for one or more option contracts, a method allocates quantities of an underlying financial product in connection with a plurality of orde... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054085 | Methods and Systems for Providing a Beta Commodity Index In at least one aspect, the invention comprises a computer-implemented method comprising: electronically receiving data regarding prices of exchange-traded futures contracts on physical commodities; selecting, based on said received data, one or more of said futures con... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054086 | CARBON DIOXIDE MONITORING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLES, CARBON DIOXIDE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND CARBON DIOXIDE MANAGEMENT METHOD USING SAME The present invention relates to a carbon dioxide monitoring apparatus for vehicles, and to a carbon dioxide management system and carbon dioxide management method using same. It is an aim of the present invention to provide a carbon dioxide monitoring apparatus for veh... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054082 | DELTA NEUTRAL FUTURES ALLOCATION In an Exchange which assigns only a whole number/integer approximate of a computed number of futures contracts to a covered order for one or more option contracts, the disclosed embodiments relate to factoring a residual number of futures contracts, remaining after fulf... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054081 | RECOVERY FROM PARTICIPANT DEFAULT IN A SECURITIES LENDING TRANSACTION A stock loan system enables a non-clearing member lender to lend to a non-clearing member borrower; each of the non-clearing members is associated with a respective clearing member. When a clearing member defaults, the stock loan system automatically tries to reassign t... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047059 | METHOD, SYSTEM, MARKET ENVIROMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND FINANCIAL PRODUCT FOR ISSUING AND SELLING A PRIMARY SECURITY ON A SECONDARY MARKET A method, system and/or computer program product for selling a primary security into a public market on which a corresponding secondary security is concurrently offered for sale at a secondary market price that includes determining the secondary market price of the seco... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047058 | Non-biased, centrally-cleared financial instrument and method of clearing and settling In accordance with the principles of the present invention, a non-biased, centrally-cleared financial instrument, and method of electronic clearing and settling such a financial instrument is provided. The non-biased, centrally-cleared financial instrument of the presen... | 02/23/2012 |
