Patent ID: 7610242

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a computer system from a first remote device, a first order to trade at least one of a first futures and a first option contract for at least one first luxury item from a first user, wherein the at least one of the first futures and the first option contract specifies that the at least one first luxury item has a plurality of respective first values for each characteristic of a set of characteristics defined by a standard luxury item profile; receiving, by the computer system from a second remote device, a second order to trade at least one of a second futures and a second option contract for at least one second luxury item from a second user, wherein the at least one of the second futures and the second option contract specifies that the at least one second luxury item has a plurality of respective second values for each characteristic of a set of characteristics defined by the standard luxury item profile, in which the second values are different form the first values; communicating, from the computer system, the first and second orders to at least one other user of a third remote device; receiving, by the computer system, a counter-side order to at least one of the first order and the second order from the at least one other user of the third remote device; and executing, by the computer system, a trade in at least one of the first futures contract, the first option contract, the second futures contract, and the second option contract.