Patent ID: 7571136
Filing Date: 2009-08-04
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for financial instrument management utilizing an electronic trading system, wherein said electronic trading system includes a plurality of traders operationally connected to a central processing center, said method comprising: receiving, at a market module of said central processing center of said electronic trading system, at least a financial instrument portfolio from a first trader and a financial instrument portfolio from at least a second trader from the plurality of traders; calculating, at said market module of said central processing center, relative risk positions of each financial instrument portfolio received from the first and second traders; matching, at said market module of said central processing center, offsetting relative risk positions of the first and second traders; and executing, at an execution module of said market module of said central processing center, a switch between the first and second traders for the matching offsetting relative risk positions, wherein the switch comprises an exchange of at least one financial instrument defining a financial risk position for at least one financial instrument defining an opposite financial risk position.