Patent ID: 8065216

Claim:
A method of displaying an evaluation tool for evaluating a proposed commission on behalf of a professional at the time of carrying out a transaction, the method comprising: receiving on a first computer an input of a principal and a share/unit price for a proposed transaction; receiving on the first computer an input of a proposed commission for the proposed transaction; using a processor of a second computer in communication with the first computer to identify and rank a plurality of nearest neighbour historical transactions from a historical transactions database stored at the second computer based on the principal and the share/unit price of the proposed transaction, each historical transaction being associated with a historical commission, and finding the highest and lowest historical commissions among the plurality of nearest neighbour historical transactions; generating a display graph on the first computer wherein the range of nearest neighbour historical transactions are shown on the graph from lowest to highest; displaying the proposed commission on the graph to allow the professional to evaluate the proposed commission relative to the nearest neighbor historical commissions; and allowing the proposed commission to be changed by input on the first computer before the proposed transaction is finalized or executed.