Patent ID: 7979343

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving at a workstation, a request from a user to execute a trade of a specific security at a current market price for that security, the request being transmitted from the user via a network coupled to the workstation; subsequently generating, at the workstation, a derivative security to represent the requested security, the derivative security having a price equal to the current market price of the security at a time the request was issued; the workstation executing the requested trade using the derivative security instead of the security and without finding a counterparty for the trade of the security; after the execution, the workstation obtaining a market price of the security at the time of the request from a financial market quotes provider from a data feed of market quotes received over the network from a financial market quote provider; and the workstation adjusting an account of the user in accordance with the executed trade utilizing the obtained market price of the security.