Patent ID: 7383221

Claim:
A process for notifying a market maker in a computerized trading system that his quote being a maker's quote is subject to being accepted by another trading partner using the computerized trading system, and Wherein the quotes are for a particular financial instrument or other commodity that are selectively made available from the market maker; Wherein the market maker is an institution or an individual trader whose open offers are available to other trading partners using the computerized trading system, the process comprising: Determining when a predetermined percentage of available trading partners in the computerized trading system are permitted to accept the market maker's quote, Wherein the predetermined percentage is more than one and less than all of the trading partners using the computerized trading system with which the market maker has bilateral credit; and Informing the market maker via the computerized trading system screen and/or components this his quote can be accepted by the predetermined percentage of trading partners using the computerized trading system with which the market maker has bilateral credit.