Patent ID: 8229837

Claim:
A method for use with a trader workstation for providing securities market transaction information to a trader comprising the steps of: receiving transaction information regarding a selected security via a trader workstation having an electronic processor, the information including price of a plurality of trades; receiving, via the trader workstation, order book information regarding an order book for the selected security; determining, via a trader workstation, whether each of a user-selected range of transactions represented in the transaction information was seller-initiated or buyer-initiated according to the transaction information and the order book information, an open sell order in the order book being bought comprising a buyer-initiated trade and an open buy order in the book being sold comprising a seller-initiated trade; displaying, via the trader workstation, for each trade of a user-selected security within the user-selected range of transactions represented in the transaction information an indicia representing the price of the trade, the indicia having an appearance distinguishing between buyer-initiated and seller-initiated trades; and comparing, via the trader workstation, transaction information regarding each trade of the user-selected security to user-specified criteria and providing an alert corresponding to trades satisfying the criteria.