Inventors:
William White - Summit NJ, US
International Classification:
G06Q 40/00
Abstract:
A computer based trading system for trading one or more financial instruments on at least one electronic exchange. The system includes a server connected to a client terminal over a communication network. The client terminal includes a GUI that displays an order book a histogram representing the market activity occurring on at least one of the plurality of electronic exchanges of a specified financial instrument. A user of the system creates and places orders by using a user pointer device coupled with the GUI so as to simultaneously a price and quantity as coordinate pair data corresponding to an arbitrary location of interaction with the GUI based on a user action. The coordinate pair data is available at continuous locations on the GUI.