Patent ID: 7792736

Claim:
A system for monitoring market price of a market for a tradable interest and for submitting offers for the tradable interest to the market, comprising: a computer connected to receive data from a market for the tradable interest, the data including price data for offers to buy and offers to sell the tradable interest submitted to the market; and software operable on said computer to display the price data in an ordered display, said ordered display indicating offers to buy in a first display area and indicating offers to sell in a second display area and displaying market price in a market price area intermediate said first and second display areas, said ordered display having two display modes, a first display mode of said ordered display maintaining the market price area at a predetermined fixed location on the display and changing price data in said first and second display areas and said market price area as market data is updated from the market, a second display mode of said ordered display maintaining the price data in stationary locations on the display and changing locations on the display of said market price area as market data is updated from the market, said display switching between said first mode and said second mode as a cursor is positioned over predetermined locations on the display by a user, said display being maintained in said first display mode so long as the cursor is positioned over a first of said predetermined locations and said display being maintained in said second display mode so long as the cursor is positioned over a second of said predetermined locations.