Patent ID: 7577607

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for displaying market information on a trading screen, the method comprising: receiving by a computing device market information that comprises bids and offers for a tradeable object; generating by the computing device a price axis comprising a plurality of price levels, wherein the market information is displayed in association to the price axis; dividing up the price axis to comprise at least a first region and a second region, wherein the first region represents a first plurality of price levels along the price axis and the second region represents a second plurality of price levels along the price axis; determining by the computing device a first level of resolution for the first region and a second level of resolution for the second region, wherein the first level of resolution is different from the second level of resolution, wherein the first level and the second level of resolution each correspond to a number of price levels per consolidated price level; displaying by the computing device incoming market information for the tradeable object in the first region according to the first level of resolution; and displaying by the computing device incoming market information for the tradeable object in the second region according to the second level of resolution.