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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2003
George Thompson, Carrollton, TX (US);
Greg Schardt, Plano, TX (US);
George Thompson, Carrollton, TX (US);
Greg Schardt, Plano, TX (US);
WGAL, LLP, Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides an apparatus and method of determining and displaying trading trends for an investment underlying one or more options wherein an opening value and a closing value for the underlying investment for two or more time intervals is obtained. An opening value trend using a market trend indicator and the opening values for the investment is calculated, and a closing value trend using the market trend indicator and the closing values for the underlying investment is calculated. A visual indicator comparing the opening value trend to the closing value trend for the underlying investment is then displayed. This method may be incorporated into a computer program embodied in a computer readable medium using code segments to accomplish the method described above.