Patent ID: 8515859

Claim:
A financial instrument (F.I.) trading system comprising: a console including a display and a user interface assembly; first processing circuitry configured to create a session based monetary trading account associated with a user of said console, wherein a session based monetary trading account is a subaccount of a regular trading account and is created upon commencement of a trading session and terminated upon completion of the trading session and wherein monetary trading account is defined as an account in which actual funds are deposited by a user and used to execute F.I. trade orders; second processing circuitry for receiving F.I. trade orders from the user via said user interface assembly, wherein F.I. trade orders are instructions to purchase or sell financial instruments in exchange for a price of the financial instruments on a financial market; and a transaction server for facilitating execution of the F.I. trade orders using funds from the session based monetary trading account and configured to credit and debit the session based monetary trading account funds gained or lost as a result of the execution of the F.I. trade orders.