Patent ID: 7487122

Claim:
An automated system for dynamic security price and value indexed comparison, comprising: a central web server running supporting software including a spreadsheet for maintaining current and historical security market data, and a security monitoring module for importing said security market data into the spreadsheet, said central web server being individually accessible by subscribers; a comparator & indexer applet also maintained on the central web server and accessible by said subscribers upon connection to said central web server to derive user-selectable security factors from the security market data in the central server to calculate the index number of said user-selectable security factors relative to a single pivot security, and to display said user-selectable security factors arranged in a table of rows of user-selectable securities and columns of said factors derived from said user-selectable security data, said display selectively including the absolute value of said security factors and/or the index number of said security factors; whereby said automated system permits a user to compare, in both absolute and indexed terms, a plurality of statistics relating to a plurality of user-selected securities; wherein said automated system allows said user to compare the designated securities based on personalized opportunity costs.