System and method for improved electronic trading
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US Β· United States
- Current Assignee / Owner
- TRADING TECH INT INC
- Publication Date
- 2006-11-16
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Abstract
Description
BACKGROUND
[0001] At one time, there were only open-outcry exchanges where traders, or more specifically buyers and sellers, would come together to trade in person. Recently, electronic exchanges have followed suit with the central evolutionary difference being the process of automatic and electronic matching of bids and offers.
[0002] In particular, subscribing traders are connected to an exchange's electronic trading platform by way of a communication link and through an application program interface to facilitate real-time electronic messaging between themselves and the exchange. The electronic trading platform includes at least one electronic market, which is at the heart of the trading system for a particular market and handles the matching of bids and offers placed by the subscribing traders for that market. The electronic messaging includes market information that is sent from the electronic market to the traders. Once the traders receive market information, it may be display...