Patent ID: 8650113

Claim:
A computer implemented method of detecting unusually consistent profitable or lossy trading, the method comprising: receiving, at a processor, trading data for a plurality of trading accounts over a plurality of time periods, wherein the trading data includes a plurality of bought contracts and a plurality of sold contracts; determining, by the processor, a number of the plurality of bought contracts and a number of the plurality of sold contracts for at least one of the plurality of trading accounts; calculating, by the processor, a net difference of an average price of the plurality of bought contracts and an average price of the plurality of sold contracts; incrementing, by the processor, a loss count if the net difference is below a minimum loss threshold; incrementing, by the processor, a profit count if the net difference is above a minimum profit threshold; adding, by the processor, the loss count and the profit count as total trading time periods; and outputting, by the processor, an indication of unusually consistent profitable or lossy trading if the profit count divided by the total trading time periods exceeds a minimum profit percentage for the plurality of time periods or the loss count divided by the total trading time periods exceeds a minimum loss percentage for the plurality of time periods.