Patent ID: 7865423

Claim:
A system for initiating trades in an investment account, comprising: a communications server for communicating investment information to a plurality of investors, the investment information comprising trader performance data and qualification event results; a qualification server for facilitating qualification events among the plurality of traders to identify exemplary traders; a performance module for calculating performance data associated with each of the traders; an allocation module for facilitating selection of traders by individual investors by allowing investors to establish, alter, and delete links between their investment accounts and one or more traders, allocating individual investors accounts among traders selected by the individual investors, and specifying trading rules for adjusting trade instructions made by traders as correlative trades in linked individual investor's investment accounts; and a trading module for receiving a trade instruction from one of the traders and initiating in response to the received trade instruction a correlative trade in investment accounts associated with investors, wherein the correlative trade is adjusted based on the specified trading rules.