SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING TRADING OPPORTUNITIES IN FINANCIAL MARKETS

A system and method for facilitating trading in financial markets is presented. The system and method provides dealers, salespersons, and traders of securities the ability to anonymously share their own or their client's interest to trade securities, to identify and match potential trading opportunities between the parties, and to automatically notify dealers, salespersons and traders about such potential trading opportunities. The system and method detects a potential trade of a client or dealer, searches a plurality of other dealers and their clients for compatible second potential trades, identifies matching trades between the parties, alerts one or more of the dealers of the matching trades, and facilitates trades between the parties while maintaining their anonymity.