Patent ID: 7734533
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for electronic trading via a yield curve, comprising: obtaining one or more sets of electronic trading strategy information on an application on a target network device with one or more processors to automatically execute one or more electronic trades on one or more electronic trading exchanges via a communications network; creating one or more yield curves using the obtained one or more sets of electronic trading strategy information for real trades, synthetic trades, black box trades, trades for spreads and trades for supply differentials for commodity futures contracts traded electronically on the one or more electronic trading exchanges; receiving continuously one or more sets of electronic trading information on the application on the target network device via a communications network from the one or more electronic trading exchanges thereby automatically generating yield values from a real-time electronic trading information automatically generated for the one or more created yield curves; executing automatically one or more electronic trades via the one or more created yield curves using the received one or more sets of electronic trading information in real-time via the application on the target network device, wherein the one or more electronic trades are executed using real-time yield values generated for the one or more created yield curves; displaying results from the automatic execution of the one or more electronic trades via the one or more created yield curves in one or more graphical windows on a multi-windowed graphical user interface including a plurality of graphical yield curve trading indicators visually displaying trading results for the one or more created yield curves comprising a yield curve impact indicator, a yield curve ratio indicator and a yield curve settlement indicator, wherein each of the plurality of graphical yield curve trading indicators includes a plurality of different display colors for displaying information for each of the plurality of graphical yield curve trading indicators; and executing automatically one or more additional electronic trades via the one or more created yield curves and one or more of the displayed plurality of graphical yield curve trading indicators via the application on the target network device.