Patent ID: 6343278
Filing Date: 2002-01-29
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
In a computerized trading system for permitting a trader to submit orders for display and acceptance by other traders, an improved multiple order facility comprising:sheet means for simultaneously displaying current market prices for a plurality of related financial instruments; multiple selection means for selecting at least two of said plurality of related instruments; price means for manually adjusting an associated price parameter for each of the selected instruments; order limit means for simultaneously setting an associated size parameter for all the selected instruments to a common order limit; and submission means for submitting respective orders each including a respective price parameter and a respective size parameter for each of the selected instruments to the other traders; wherein after any of the submitted orders subject to the common order limit is dealt on by any of the other traders for a particular deal size, the order limit means automatically reduces the size parameter of each of the other submitted orders subject to that same common order limit by an amount corresponding to that deal size.