Patent ID: 8527397

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions executable by one or more processors to perform a method for matching investors and traders to create risk controlled investment accounts comprising: instructions for providing a plurality of investor accounts and a plurality of trader accounts; instructions for continuously recording performance data for each of said plurality of trader accounts; instructions for retrieving an investor profile from each of said plurality of investor accounts, wherein said investor profile includes investment criteria and risk-tolerance criteria; instructions for retrieving a trader profile from each of said plurality of trader accounts, wherein said trader profile includes trading criteria; instructions for executing a set of compatibility algorithms in order to compile a list of high-incidence matches for a particular investor from said plurality of investor accounts; instructions for prompting said particular investor account to select a chosen trader account from said list of high-incidence matches; instructions for displaying said performance data and said trader profile of said chosen trader account to said particular investor account; instructions for brokering a trade agreement between said particular investor account and said chosen trader account in order to meet said investment criteria and said risk-tolerance criteria of said particular investor account and to meet said trading criteria of said chosen trader account; instructions for prompting said particular investor account to create an investment fund for trading activity; and instructions for implementing a risk management strategy for said particular investor account, wherein said risk management strategy could include an allowed percentage of risk, a guarantor account, a security escrow, and a single pooled fund; instructions for retrieving transaction data for said investment fund in order to proportionately allocate profits and losses from said trading activity between said particular investor account and said chosen trader account, wherein said transaction data includes said profits being deposited into and said losses being withdrawn from said investment fund.