Patent ID: 8086527
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method of protecting a market participant participating in a market, the method comprising: allocating, by a processor, an amount of risk to the market participant, the allocated amount of risk being stored in an account; reducing, by the processor, the stored allocated amount of risk based on a first transaction proposed by the market participant but not yet matched with another proposed transaction counter thereto; receiving, by the processor, a second transaction proposed by the market participant but not yet matched with another proposed transaction counter thereto, the second proposed transaction having been proposed prior to the conclusion of the first proposed transaction; prior to the conclusion of the first and second proposed transactions, determining, by the processor, if the stored allocated amount of risk has been depleted by the reduction based on the first proposed transaction and acting, by the processor, in accordance therewith to at least one of block or allow the availability of the second proposed transaction to be matched; transmitting a message to the market participant based on the determining; and re-allocating the amount of risk to the account after an elapse of a period of time.