WO2002046999A2 - Method of electronically simulating a pit-trading environment in order to maximize liquidity in an online exchange - Google Patents
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- Price determination is the process whereby, out of numerous buyers and sellers in a single or various locations, a single best buy and a single best sell price is determined.
- Markets aim to be fair, efficient, liquid and transparent. Fairness is the ability for all market participants to see the correct price and the best bid and offer at the same time and have the ability to act on that information accordingly.
- Efficiency is the process of removing as many layers of indirection between the trader and the place where the trade takes place.
- Liquidity is the state created when there are enough buyers and sellers simultaneously in the market such that a buyer can always find a seller at some offer price and a seller can always find a buyer at some bid price.
- Transparency is the state created when all the market participants have sufficient information to make an informed buy or sell decision. Historically, the best way to achieve these conditions was to have all market participants in one location, called a pit. The method of transacting a deal was known as "open-outcry''. Participants would indicate the volume to transact and the bid or offer price using standardized hand signals. An aggressor, or person taking the opposite side of the trade, would hit an opposing bid or lift an opposing offer.
- Order driven markets are characterized bv the receipt of one-sided orders. These are orders whereby the trader only offers to buy or sell, not both.
- a quote- driven market allows one-sided orders but, in addition, employs market-makers who are obligated to make two- sided quotes. That is, they must always specify at what price they are willing to buy and sell simultaneously. This allows participants to place "market orders" or orders which are filled at the best bid or offer price in the market. The market-maker, at the top of the queue is required to take the other side of the trade.
- Tko invention described in th ⁇ document is a method whereby a pit-trading environment, being the best method of generating liquidity for a given commodity, is simulated electronically.
- orders submitted to the exchange do not sit idly in a queue but announce themselves to the market in the case that a price is bettered on either side (bid or offer) of the market.
- Traders who have essentially joined the pit by indicating an interest in the price of a commodity will be notified that the price for their item of interest has been bettered. Notification, in this case can come in many forms as long as all of the interested participants have the potential of having been notified in a reasonably similar time-frame.
- the field of the invention relates to a method of electronically simulating a pit trading environment with the use of remote manual and electronic alerts in the event of price betterment in the market and displays to indicate the relative positions of individual traders to the other traders in the market.
- the document entitled US5842178 Computerized quotation system and method describes a method whereby participants in a market can elect to participate in the bidding for a specific commodity based on a set of filters which are set by the participant to determine the class of commodity in which the participant is interested.
- the system is specifically geared towards alerting a potential participant to the availability of a commodity in which the trader may be interested based on the set filters.
- the idea essentially, is to democratize the process of selecting vendors to participate in a given bidding process, such that the purchaser has the greatest set of potential sellers from which to choose.
- FUNGIBLE PROPERTIES BETWEEN SUBSCRIBERS is the original patent for an electronic exchange system which would become the backbone of the U.S. electronic communication network (ECN) where a large percentage of NASDAQ shares are traded.
- ECN electronic communication network
- Almost every patent application relevant to the exchange business either directly references this patent or can be traced back to it through its references.
- the essence of this patent deals with the heart of an electronic exchange system whereby orders and quotes are received by an electronic network and booked into a central computer. The orders are listed in priority according to price and time after being matched against the existing order book for opposing orders. There is great detail with respect to the matching algorithm and how remaining partially filled orders are handled. This prior art was included to cover the area of matching and order execution and to demonstrate how this area is distinct from the area of the current invention.
- the current invention deals specifically with a method whereby bid/offer betterment alerts combined with market-depth rankings displays can be used to simulate electronically an offline open-outcry exchange whereas this prior art is concerned specifically with the order crossing process itself. No other prior art in this vein will be referenced as it is the contention of the inventors that all core exchange-specific patents and applications are comparable in their divergence from the claims made by the current invention.
- US6014644 Centrally coordinated communication systems with multiple broadcast data objects and response tracking is an invention which covers the area related to tracking the interaction between the buyer and seller during the process of deal consummation.
- the concern here is with the ability of a buyer or seller to access a catalog of counter-parties and submit bids/offers via electronic broadcast.
- the responses from the targeted counter-parties are then tracked and collated into a broadcast object.
- the object is then passed between agents involved in the transaction thus providing an audit trail which describes the state of the conversation between various potential counter-parties which may or may not result in a deal.
- This invention deals with the process of the interaction between the counter-parties as the transaction is processed.
- the invention is a method and a process whereby an open-outcry, pit-trading environment can be simulated electronically.
- the method involves the participation of multiple, anonymous buyers and sellers, known as traders who "log in” to the computer system via remote means.
- the means involve the logging in over a public or private network to a central computer comprised of one or more processing units running any operating system.
- the traders then are allowed to create one or more folders which can be labeled according to personalized requirements.
- the trader then is allowed to upload by electronic means a list of related commodities, either for purchase or for sale, to the folder. For each commodity, the trader is allowed to specify a volume to transact and a buy or sell price as the case dictates.
- the folder of parts and the specified buy or sell price is then listed against the current best buy and sell price in the market.
- the price on the same side of the market as the trader is listed for the purpose of demonstrating to the trader how far off he is from the market and the price on the opposite side of the market is displayed for the purpose of demonstrating to the trader how close he is to being hit or lifted.
- the trader then has the ability to move from a given commodity listed for sale or purchase to a display which shows all of the current bids or offers in the market for that component ranked in priority according first to price and then to time.
- the trader further has the ability to navigate to a screen which will allow him the opportunity to indicate that he wishes to be informed, by some means, when certain conditions have been met.
- the conditions include:
- the trader will then be able to indicate by which means, electronic or manual, that he wishes to be notified should any of the pre-described conditions be met.
- the methods can include any traditional or conventional methods including email, facsimile, telephone, SMS, WAP or any electronic means that the trader finds convenient.
- the trader will be notified using the methods described.
- the characteristics of a pit-trading environment have been sufficiently simulated to provide a liquid, transparent trading environment; all market participants in a given "pit" are virtually present and able to receive the "outcry" indicating a betterment in the price of a given commodity in which they have expressed interest by their virtual participation in the market. .
- the present invention is a method by which an open-outcry, pit-trading environment can be simulated in an electronic form. As described in the background section of this document, this method of trading is generally accepted as the one whereby the greatest liquidity has traditionally been generated for a given market. It is noticed that there are two common traits to this type of traditional trading environment. The first is the the physical proximity of many traders in one location. This allows the generation of liquidity through the visual contact which is made by persons in close proximity but may be lost in a computerized trading environment.
- Liquidity is generally enhanced in the pit due to two factors; a) a trader may not be immediately interested in a trade but may decide to trade due to the effect of visibly seeing orders transmitted to the pit by order takers and b) the effect of being able to immediately hear when a bid or offer is changed has an effect on the sentiment of the trader.
- the first factor influencing liquidity is simulated by allowing the trader to see a virtual representation of all of the orders in the market along with said trader's own order, bid or offer, highlighted against the other orders.
- FIG 1 shows a representation of a typical pit-trading environment with traders, order fillers and order takers all involved in the order process.
- an order is received via phon ⁇ or other means from a customer outside of the exchange.
- the order is taken by an order taker at the desk of a brokerage firm physically located close to the trading floor.
- the order is then sent, via runner, to the an "order filler" who is standing in the physical trading pit.
- the pit is populated by numerous traders who represent various interests, both personal and corporate, in the commodity being traded. Some of the traders are "locals" who simply exist to make a living by taking a quick spread between the buy and the sell price. Some of the traders are executing orders for corporate interests on behalf of a brokerage firm who maintains a seat on the exchange.
- the order filler attempts to get the best buy or sell price for that commodity.
- the current best buy is on a price of 5 and the current best sell is at a price of 8.
- the "undecided" trader obviously is not willing to buy at 8 or sell on 5.
- the new order to sell at 7 arrives, two things can happen; the undecided trader may decide to buy at 7 or the buyer on a price of 5 may decide to increase his buy order to 7. In either case, a deal is done because the current buyer and/or the undecided trader can visually see the new order being transmitted to the pit and hear the announcement of the order to sell at 7.
- the order to sell at 7, having been transmitted to the pit the potential counter-parties to the trade will not hear of the price improvement because they are not physically located where the new price is announced.
- the prices are "announced" as if the trade was being done in an open-outcry environment using various broadcasting means, both electronic and manual.
- An indication to buy takes the following form: X on Y where X denotes the quantity, "on” denotes an indication to buy and Y denotes the price.
- X at Y where X denotes the quantity, "at” denotes an indication to sell and Y denotes the price.
- a seller who sells to a buyer is said to "hit” the buyers bid.
- a buyer who buys from a seller is said to "lift" that sellers offer.
- FIG 2 shows a more complete representation of the activity which is occuring in the open-outcry pit.
- the environment is characterized by a plurality of traders, market makers and order fillers who are each trying to buy at the lowest price possible and sell at the highest price possible.
- Each trader announces the price and quantity at which he is willing to buy or sell.
- Rules usually indicate that only a single best buy or sell may be announced at one time.
- Exchange officers will reprimand a trader who announces a price that is currently not the best price in the pit.
- a trader that wishes to quit his current price is expected to announce the fact usually by exclaiming "out! At that time, a different price may be announced.
- a trader standing in the pit generally listens to the bids and offers announced and builds a mental picture of what the market depth is.
- the depth is defined as a list of all the bids and offers extent in the market listed in priority of price.
- the depth is constantly liquid due to the fact that only the best bid or offer in the market is announced and that all participants maintain only a mental indication of what their own best buy or sell price is and what the others in the pit may be buying or selling at. This mental indication of depth is a critical factor in the creation of a liquidity of a market.
- an electronic facility known as an Order Folder or an Order Basket is provided by the current invention to link all of the trader's commodities both to an electronic indication of market depth and an electronic notification system which provides alerts in the case of bid/offer/price betterment for the indicated commodities.
- FIG 3 provides an illustration of such a basket which shows an item offered for purchase along with the price and quantity offered for purchase.
- a "Buy Folder” indicates all of the "pits" that a given trader is interested in trading in.
- the particular commodity is represented by a part number (P/N).
- P/N part number
- the trader's own buy price and volume are listed along with the best buys and sells in the market which simulates the traders mental picture of the prices extent in the "pit”.
- the "virtual pit" for a given part is a link to the display of the market depth for that pit and a link to a screen whereby the trader can modify his own buy price.
- links are provided to displays which indicate the market depth for that particular commodity.
- Fig 4 illustrates the same information available to the trader on the sell side.
- the "Sell Folder" indicates all of the "pits" that a given trader is interested in trading in.
- the particular commodity is represented by a part number (P/N).
- the trader's own sell price and volume are listed along with the best buys and sells in the market which simulates the traders mental picture of the prices extent in the "pit".
- the "virtual pit" for a given part is a link to the display of the market depth for that pit and a link to a screen whereby the trader can modify his own buy price.
- FIG 5 shows a visual representation of the information which is available to the trader who is standing in a pit and viewing the incoming orders and bids and offers being announced.
- the present invention aims to encapsulate all of the information available to a trader in a pit within a given computerized display. In effect, it supplants the traders mental image of the current state of the pit.
- the information consists of all of the buyers and sellers currently in the market, their volume bid or offer and the current best bid or offer price in the market.
- the trader understands where their own order ranks, given that only a given trader can know what their own best bid or offer price is at any given time.
- the second factor involved the immediate and thorough dissemination of changes in bid, offer and transacted prices. In a pit trading environment, it is mandated that all offers to purchase and sell be announced loudly and to all participants equally. A price announced quietly or to a single other participant or subset of participants is not generally allowed by market regulators.
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