Patent ID: 7711631

Claim:
A method for displaying market data associated with a tradeable object being traded electronically on an electronic exchange, the method comprising: receiving market data corresponding to the tradeable object via a computing device, the market data comprising an inside market with highest bid price and a lowest ask price currently available for the tradeable object; displaying a trading interface via the computing device, the trading interface including a chart region and a market grid region aligned with the chart region, the chart region defined by a first value axis having a first plurality of values along the first value axis and a time axis, the market grid region having a second plurality of values along a second value axis, the second plurality of values being an adjustable subset of the first plurality of values; displaying historical market data corresponding to the tradeable object in the chart region, the historical market data being mapped to the first plurality of values along the first value axis; displaying a plurality of areas in the market grid region for receiving commands from a user input device to send trade orders to an electronic exchange, the areas in the market grid region correspond to the second plurality of values along the second value axis; adjusting the second plurality of values along the second value axis to a different subset of the first plurality of values receiving, via an input device, a user-initiated command for submitting a trade order for the tradeable object at a price determined according to a selected area of the plurality of areas of the market grid region; and in response to receiving the trade order, displaying a chart region indicator in the chart region and a working order indicator in the market grid region, where the chart region indicator is mapped to a value of the historical market data corresponding to the price of the trade order and the working order indicator represents the price of the trade order received in the market grid region.