Patent ID: 8628150

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for facilitating trading in one or more items by a customer, said method comprising the steps of: providing a computer trading screen with a plurality of icons representing information linked to the one or more items, a plurality of trade checkboxes and a plurality of supplemental information that can be accessed by the customer by hovering a screen indictor at one or more of the icons; offering said supplemental information as said screen indictor hovers at the one or more of the icons; receiving a click selection input from a checkbox using a triple-action selection to denote one of three states within the checkbox in order to formulate a trade, wherein a first click selection input within the checkbox denotes a buy state of the trade, a second click selection input within the checkbox denotes a sell state of the trade, and a third click selection input within the checkbox denotes a unselected state of the trade with the unselected state being neither the buy state nor the sell state; determining by a computer based on the click selection input whether the trade is a single leg trade, butterfly, condo, straddle spread or multi-trade and associating the trade to a trade ticket; and executing the trade via the trade ticket.