Patent ID: 7330834
Filing Date: 2008-02-12
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for online trading assets via transactionally linked virtual markets comprising the steps of: defining attributes and behaviors of virtual markets; placing individual buy and sell orders in the virtual markets; defining at least one unified cross-market trading strategy that includes at least a first order in a first virtual market and a second order in a second virtual market; automatically calculating, based on the unified cross-market trading strategy, a price and an amount for the first order in the first virtual market based on a price and an amount of one or more orders in the second virtual market; automatically calculating, based on the unified cross-market trading strategy, a price and an amount for the second order in the second virtual market based on a price and an amount of one or more orders in the first virtual market; automatically routing the first and second orders to their respective virtual markets; and automatically matching and executing both individual orders and orders generated by cross-market trading strategies for virtual markets; wherein at least part of the method is performed on one or more computer systems.