Patent ID: 8838497

Claim:
A method of executing additional trades on a trading platform at a previously executed price comprising: setting, via a computing device, a price of a security at a price at which an original buyer and original seller executed a trade; ranking, via said computing device, participants for engaging in additional trades at the set price, wherein the ranking is at least partially determined by summing a quantity of clips each of said participants has traded on the platform in a given period, wherein for at least one participant said quantity of clips represents at least two different securities, and wherein said participants are not limited to the original buyer and original seller; and executing the additional trades at the set price based on the ranking, wherein said clips each comprises a total number of traded shares divided by a normalizing quantity, wherein said normalizing quantity is determined by the platform, and wherein a normalizing quantity determined for a first security varies from a normalizing quantity determined for at least one second security.