Patent ID: 8380604

Claim:
A method of determining financial objects to purchase or to sell by a programmed computer using a non-price accounting data based index (ADBI) comprising: using, by at least one computer, the non-price accounting data based index (ADBI), wherein the non-price ADBI was constructed, by at least one computer processor, by at least selecting non-price ADBI constituents by at least one non-price accounting data, and by at least weighting said the non-price ADBI constituents by at least one non-priced accounting data, isolating, by the at least one computer, outperformance of the non-price ADBI, wherein said isolating: determining, by at least one computer processor, overlapping financial objects appearing in both a portfolio constructed using the accounting based index (ADBI) and a portfolio constructed using a conventionally weighted index by comparing said portfolios; wherein said portfolios are stored in at least one storage medium; wherein said conventionally weighted index comprises an index weighted based on at least one of capitalization, equal weighting, or share price weighting; and wherein the non-price ADBI comprises selecting and weighting, by the at least one computer processor, based on at least one non-price accounting data based measure and not based on any of capitalization, equal weighting, and share price weighting; comparing, by the at least one computer processor, weightings of said overlapping financial objects in said ADBI with weightings of said overlapping financial objects in said conventionally weighted index; and determining, by the least one computer processor, at least one financial object to purchase or to sell based on said comparing.