Patent ID: 7917418

Claim:
A method, comprising: (a) listing by a computing system a plurality of financial instruments on a market center, wherein each of the plurality of financial instruments is associated with at least one record having pricing information for the financial instrument and wherein the market center reports the pricing information throughout a financial marketplace; (b) monitoring by the computing system, the trading activity of the plurality of financial instruments throughout the financial marketplace; (c) flagging by the computing system, the records for at least one of the plurality of financial instruments for reporting suppression when the at least one of the plurality of financial instruments has not traded within a pre-determined time period in the financial marketplace; and (d) suppressing by the computing system, the pricing information of the at least one of the plurality of financial instruments that are flagged when the market center reports pricing information throughout the financial marketplace, wherein the at least one of the plurality of financial instruments are still listed on the market center.