Patent ID: 8612334

Claim:
A system for facilitating the making of a trading decision relative to an article of commerce, said system comprising: a programmable computer having a central processing unit (CPU); a communication device linked to said computer for receiving a collection of price data relating to an investment from a data source; a software program for providing a set of instructions to said computer to receive and process said collection of price data related to the article of commerce to generate volatility-adjusted relative price data related to the article of commerce and to generate an indication of a valuation state of a market for the article of commerce as being currently priced at a fair value, as overvalued or as undervalued; the software program providing information for display in the form selected from the group consisting of a known price chart relating to the article of commerce, a volatility adjusted price chart related to the article of commerce, a profile related to the article of commerce showing the historical behavior of the volatility adjusted price information, the current valuation state of the article of commerce and combinations thereof.