Patent ID: 7509284
Filing Date: 2009-03-24
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising the steps of: receiving from a first trader a first warning limit specified against a second trader; receiving from the second trader a second warning limit specified against the first trader; receiving at a trading system a first order from the first trader; receiving at the trading system a second order from the second trader, determining that execution of the pending trade between the first trader and the second trader causes at least one of the first warning limit and the second warning limit to be exceeded; and processing the pending trade between the first trader and the second trader, in which processing the pending trade comprises one of: based at least in part on determining that execution of the pending trade between the first trader and the second trader causes at least one of the first warning limit and the second warning limit to be exceeded, displaying to the first trader via a workstation a prompt as to whether the first trader does or does not want to subsequently trade with the second trader.