Patent ID: 7207885

Claim:
A system for electronic trading, comprising: a memory operable to store: a first set of controller signal relationships, the first set associated with a first user and with a first type of game controller; a second set of controller signal relationships, the second set associated with the first user and with a second type of game controller; and a third set of controller signal relationships, the third set associated with a second user and with the first type of game controller; an interface application communicatively coupled to the memory, wherein: at least one controller signal relationship associates one of a plurality of game controller signals with one of a plurality of trading system commands associated with the electronic trading of financial instruments; the interface application is operable to: identify a particular user associated with a particular game controller; identify a particular controller type associated with the particular game controller; determine at least one of the stored sets of controller signal relationships based at least in part on the identified user and the identified controller type; receive a particular game controller signal from the particular game controller; determine the trading system command associated with the particular game controller signal based at least in part on the at least one determined set of controller signal relationships; and communicate the determined trading system command such that the trading system command is executed.