Patent ID: 7620591

Claim:
A method, comprising: in a market for a particular type of instrument, receiving, by a trading workstation from a trading platform, electronic data on trading orders that have been placed on a trading exchange, wherein the data includes prices associated with the trading orders, wherein the trading orders are associated with respective ones of a plurality of trading order stacks, and wherein the trading workstation and the trading platform are communicatively coupled via a communications network; determining, by the trading workstation, that a particular one of the trading orders comprises an outlying order, and wherein the particular trading order is associated with a first of the plurality of trading order stacks; providing, by the trading workstation, to a trader an electronic display of the trading orders within their respective trading order stacks; and based at least in part on determining that the particular trading order comprises the outlying order, taking, by the trading workstation, a restrictive action with respect to the particular trading order, wherein taking the restrictive action comprises at least one of: at least temporarily preventing within the electronic display a promotion of the particular trading order to a top of the first trading order stack, at least temporarily not displaying within the electronic display the particular trading order within the first trading order stack, and at least temporarily modifying within the electronic display an appearance of the particular trading order as compared to other trading orders within the first trading order stack.