Patent ID: 7925575

Claim:
An apparatus including: a trading station; wherein the trading station is configured to display a first interface configured to display market data along a value axis; wherein the trading station is configured to display a second interface comprising a scan region, wherein the scan region comprises a plurality of aligned areas, each area associated with a tradeable object in a plurality of tradeable objects, wherein each tradeable object in the plurality of tradeable objects is associated with at least one of the aligned areas in the scan region; wherein the trading station is configured to receive a definition defining a movement of a cursor, wherein the cursor corresponds to a user input device, wherein the definition for the movement includes a speed parameter, wherein the speed parameter defines a speed of movement of the cursor; wherein the trading station is configured to detect a movement of the cursor over a selected area according to the defined movement, wherein the selected area is one of the plurality of aligned areas in the scan region; wherein the trading station is configured to select a selected tradeable object from the plurality of tradeable objects in response to detecting the movement of the cursor according to the defined movement, wherein the selected tradeable object is the tradeable object associated with the selected area; and wherein the trading station is configured to display via the first interface market data for the selected tradeable object.