Patent 7653584 was granted and assigned to Chicago Board Options Exchange on January, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and system is provided for allowing a participant that generates order flow to participate in automated execution trades that are generated by the participant's order flow, without affecting the price of execution to the retail customer. The method and system automatically assigns a stated percentage of the contra-side of each customer trade to the participant that sent in the order flow.