Patent ID: 7835979
Filing Date: 2010-11-16
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: in a market for an instrument, receiving, by a processing device, trading orders from a plurality of traders via respective workstations that are associated with the plurality of traders, placing, by the processing device, each of the received trading orders on a trading exchange such that the trading orders may be executed, including placing each of the received trading orders in one of a plurality of trading order stacks; determining, by the processing device, that the price of a particular trading order differs from at least one comparison price by more than a threshold value; and based at least in part on determining that the price of the particular trading order differs from the at least one comparison price by more than the threshold value, at least temporarily preventing by the processing device, within an electronic display of the particular trading order's respective trading order stack, a promotion of the particular trading order within its respective trading order stack,