US Patent 11961140 Randomization of orders at matching in electronic trading systems

The disclosed embodiments relate to a latency floor mechanism for processing incoming orders to an electronic trading system which impart a delay on orders, not when they are received, but when they are matched by the match engine/CLOB thereby imparting zero added latency between order submission/modifications/cancellations and price market data publication by the electronic trading system because the disclosed randomization processing delay applies only to matched orders, which represent a small fraction of the market events.