Patent ID: 7430532

Claim:
A method for analyzing and effectuating a transaction involving an individual fixed income security, comprising the steps of: a) accessing an analytics platform adapted and configured to perform an economic analysis on a selected individual fixed income security under user defined conditions to model the economic effects on a selected portfolio of a hypothetical future transaction involving the selected individual fixed income security and the selected portfolio, the platform including a plurality of adjustable options for conducting the economic analysis; b) inputting a plurality of adjustable options into the platform for conducting the economic analysis; c) selecting a proposed individual fixed income security for potential inclusion in at least one portfolio thereby creating a hypothetical transaction; d) selecting a plurality of portfolios from a group of portfolios under management from a portfolio database in operable communication with the analytics platform, each portfolio containing at least one existing individual fixed income security; e) conducting an economic analysis on the selected portfolios with the proposed individual fixed income security using at least one of the adjustable options on the analytics platform to determine effects of the hypothetical transaction on the selected portfolios; f) choosing a plurality of the selected portfolios for completing the hypothetical transaction; g) transferring information relating to the hypothetical transaction from the analytics platform to a trade entry system with a single action controlled by an agent, wherein the single action is selection of a trade button; and h) actualizing the hypothetical transaction across the plurality of portfolios as a result of step (g).