Omx Technology Ab

Alessandro Romani

A method of calculating leg prices in trading of a combination order on a market having set price rules is provided. The combination order comprises a combination of instruments of at least two different kinds that are traded for a single net price and each kind of instrument is associated with a respective leg price. The method comprises the following steps: a) assigning seed price values to all leg prices but a last leg price; b) calculating the last leg price by means of the assigned seed price values and a net price for the combination order; c) checking whether the last leg price complies with the price rules; d) if the last leg price does not comply with the price rules, modifying the seed price values; and repeating steps c) and d) until the last leg price complies with current price rules or for a predetermined number of times. This attains compliance with the tick step rules and in turn avoids the use of secondary price algorithms, which may lead to costly and time-consuming manual re-booking.

Combination LEG price generation

In an automatic trade system wherein bids and offers in instruments as well as in combinations of instruments are received and a trade in an instrument or in a combination of instruments is performed when, for a certain number of that instrument or combination of instruments, a bid price matches an ask price, a method for generating estimated prices of instruments for a trade in a combination of instruments, comprises the steps of (i) identifying for each bid/offer in each one of said instruments its bid/ask price; (ii) storing the identified bid/ask price of the last bid/offer in each one of said instruments; and (iii) generating said estimated prices based on the stored bid/ask price of the last bid/offer in at least one of said instruments, which is comprised in said combination of instruments, independent on whether said last bid/offer still exists or not at the time of generating said estimated prices.

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Alessandro Romani