Patent ID: 8131626

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving by a computing device a selection of a quadrant from a plurality of quadrants, in which each quadrant comprises a portion of a customizable display and each quadrant comprises a benchmark instrument, the selected quadrant comprising a first benchmark instrument; retrieving by a computing device a plurality of non-benchmark instruments from a server coupled to the computing device over a network, in which each non-benchmark instrument shares at least one variable in common with the first benchmark instrument, and in which the first benchmark instrument comprises a first type of instrument, and in which the one of the plurality of non-benchmark instruments comprises a second type of instrument that is different from the first type; retrieving from a server market data for the first benchmark instrument and the plurality of non-benchmark instruments; and generating and outputting the customizable display in accordance to a layout, in which the customizable display comprises the selected quadrant and a plurality of other quadrants, and in which the selected quadrant comprises the retrieved market data for the first benchmark instrument and the plurality of non-benchmark instruments.