Patent ID: 8700441

Claim:
A computer-implemented trader portal system for use within a trading organization supporting multiple traders, the trader portal system for integrating available trader related resources from multiple sources for trader viewing and utilization, the trader portal system comprising: administrative controls for allowing administrative configuration of the trader related resources visible to the multiple traders within the trading organization; a source collection engine, implementing computer processing components, for collecting the trader related resources from the multiple sources in accordance with the administrative configuration, the multiple sources including at least one internal source, the internal source disposed inside of the trading organization and accessed over a first network, and at least one external source located externally of the trading organization and accessed over a second network; a source integration engine, implementing computer processing components, for automatically integrating the trader related resources collected from the multiple sources with a plurality of trading modules in accordance with the administrative configuration; and multiple interface modules accessible to the traders through a user interface, wherein at least one interface module displays trader related resources integrated with at least one of the trading modules, said at least one interface module displaying the trader related resources from an internal source disposed inside the trading organization and an external source disposed external of the trading organization in accordance with the administrative configuration, the user interface customizable by a trader of the multiple traders within the trading organization.