Patent ID: 7487123
Filing Date: 2009-02-03
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for trading a plurality of instruments in a computerized trading system that receives buy orders and sell orders for an instrument, the method comprising: Measuring with at least one server computer an imbalance between the buy orders and sell orders for the instrument received over a given period, the buy and seller orders received from at least a first computer associated with a first trader and a second computer associated with a second trader, each of the first and second computers coupled to the at least one server computer over a communication network; Computing with at least one server computer a projected price movement based on the measured imbalance between the number of buy and sell orders; setting a market price for the instrument based upon the received buy and sell orders and the measured imbalance; automatically generating additional buy orders or sell orders for the instrument at the market price to guarantee execution of some or all of the received buy or sell orders; generating an electronic currency to execute the buy or sell orders; crediting a first trader's account with proceeds in the electronic currency for the executed sell orders by the first trader; and debiting a second trader's account in the electronic currency for the executed buy orders by the second trader.