Patent ID: 7177831

Claim:
An integrated computer-driven system by which a user connected to a global computer network may invest in financial securities, comprising: a. means for transmitting to said user's display a plurality of strategies, said strategies being quantitative methodologies of security selection from a universe of securities, in a manner by which the user may interact with the system in a self-directed manner whereby the user may view at the user's discretion descriptive information including selection methodology, community discussion, community chats, and/or community polls regarding each strategy; b. means for transmitting to said user's display performance figures pertaining to each strategy since its inception against a preferred benchmark; c. means for permitting said user to view a basket of financial securities for each of the plurality of strategies, wherein each basket of financial securities includes an ordered list of suggested financial securities and a number of shares to be purchased of each the suggested financial securities; d. means for receiving from said user a selection of one of the plurality of strategies and for permitting said user to add securities to or remove securities from said ordered list of suggested financial securities of the selected strategy and to replace any security on said ordered list of the selected strategy with a next ordinal replacement suggested by the strategy; and e. means for facilitating said user to purchase said ordered list of suggested financial securities in weights prescribed by the basket of financial securities of the selected strategy or the user's customizations in an amount of the user's choosing through a qualified broker.