Trading & Investment Calculator

Abstract

The specification discloses a handheld computing device or portable electronic calculator that comprises a software application adapted to provide instructions to perform math operations to calculate trading and investment variables and display these variables resulting from the math operation(s) on the display screen simultaneously along with descriptive acronyms. The software application may be further adapted to provide instructions that allows a user to input trading and investment variables including trading price/or trading premium and then incrementing trading price/or premium by decimal or fraction with up and down arrow key(s) or “speed key(s)” on the input device concurrently while viewing the trading price/or premium and calculated order size/or number of contract(s) changes on the display screen. The handheld electronic device or calculator determines variables that are used during active trading and investment, such as gain/loss, gross/net profit, margin, buy & sell price, cash amounts, return rate, yield, order sizes, as examples.

11 . An electronic hand held calculator comprising:
 An input means,   A processor, said processor configured to execute at least one of equations EQU 1  through EQU 11 ; EQU 15 ; EQU 23  through EQU 29 ; EQU 33  through EQU 38 ; EQU 51  through EQU 84 , and   A display to provide answers to trading and investment calculations.   
     
     
         42 . An electronic hand held calculator of  claim 11 , where the hand held electronic calculator is a cellular telephone. 
     
     
         43 . An electronic hand held calculator of  claim 42 , where the hand held electronic calculator is a cellular telephone where the input device includes the keypad normally used for dialing telephone numbers. 
     
     
         44 . An electronic hand held calculator of  claim 11 , where the hand held electronic calculator is a personal organizer. 
     
     
         45 . An electronic hand held calculator of  claim 11 , where the hand held electronic calculator is a pager. 
     
     
         46 . An electronic hand held calculator of  claim 11 , where the hand held electronic calculator has an display screen comprising a touch sensitive screen that allows inputs to be received by touching the screen with a finger or touch wand. 
     
     
         47 . An electronic hand held calculator of  claim 46 , where the hand held electronic calculator has an input device that is a simulated keypad displayed on the touch sensitive screen 
     
     
         48 . An electronic hand held calculator of  claim 11 , where the hand held electronic calculator performs math operations to calculate stock, futures, options, mutual funds, indexes, exchange traded funds, currency, commodities, or interest rate trading and investment variables, in addition to more common investment calculations such as gain/loss (dollars & percent), gross/net profit (dollars & percent), return rate, yield, cash flow, income, costs/fees, dividends, dividend reinvested income, reinvestment percent, average quarterly dividends, taxes, before/after taxes, before/after costs and fees, share volume, term, margin, short & long-term capital gains/losses, cost per share, basis per share, adjusted basis, total basis, buy & sell price, cash amounts, breakeven price, total cost, order sizes by price, number of contracts by premium, leverage ratios, liquidity ratios, operations ratios, profitability ratios, and display these variables resulting from the math operation(s) on the display screen simultaneously along with descriptive acronyms. 
     
     
         49 . An electronic hand held calculator of  claim 11 , where the hand held electronic calculator has a set of instructions or computer program and, when executed, causes a processor to calculate and display trading and investment variables on the display screen 
     
     
         50 . An electronic hand held calculator of  claim 50 , where the hand held electronic calculator determines COST, SELL, and and MARGIN variables. 
     
     
         51 . An electronic hand held calculator of  claim 50 , where the hand held electronic calculator determines COST, SELL, and MARGIN variables where the user can enter variables or numbers through buttons/ or key registers, and then depress one of the buttons to solve for the unknown variable and display this variable on the display screen. 
     
     
         52 . An electronic hand held calculator of  claim 51 , where the hand held electronic calculator determines COST, SELL, and MARGIN variables based on internal profit or return rate calculations executed by the processor, and then displayed on the display screen. 
     
     
         53 . An apparatus and method for trading and investment comprising:
 An input means,   A processor, said processor configured to execute at least one of equations EQU 1  through EQU 11 : EQU 15 ; EQU 23  through EQU 29 ; EQU 33  through EQU 38 ; EQU 51  through EQU 84 , and   A display to provide answers to trailing and investment calculations.   
     
     
         54 . An electronic hand held device comprising:
 An input means,   A processor, said processor configured to execute at least one of equations EQU 1  through EQU 11 ; EQU 15 ; EQU 23  through EQU 29 ; EQU 33  through EQU 38 ; EQU 51  through EQU 84 , and   A display to provide answers to trading and investment calculations.   
     
     
         55 . An electronic hand held device of  claim 54 , where the hand held electronic device is a cellular telephone. 
     
     
         56 . An electronic hand held device of  claim 54 , where the hand held electronic device is a cellular telephone, where the input device includes the keypad normally used for dialing telephone numbers. 
     
     
         57 . An electronic hand held device of  claim 54 , where the hand held electronic device is a personal organizer. 
     
     
         58 . An electronic hand held device of  claim 54 , where the hand held electronic device is a pager. 
     
     
         59 . An electronic hand held device of  claim 54 , where the hand held electronic device has a display screen comprising a touch sensitive screen that allows inputs to be received by touching the screen with a finger or touch wand. 
     
     
         60 . An electronic hand held device of  claim 59 , where the hand held electronic device has an input device that is a simulated keypad displayed on the touch sensitive screen 
     
     
         61 . An electronic hand held device of  claim 54 , where the hand held electronic device performs math operations to calculate stock, futures, options, mutual funds, indexes, exchange traded funds, currency, commodities, or interest rate trading and investment variables, in addition to more common investment calculations such as gain/loss (dollars & percent), gross/net profit (dollars & percent), return rate, yield, cash flow, income, costs/fees, dividends, dividend reinvested income, reinvestment percent, average quarterly dividends, taxes, before/after taxes, before/after costs and fees, share volume, term, margin, short & long-term capital gains/losses, cost per share, basis per share, adjusted basis, total basis, buy & sell price, cash amounts, breakeven price, total cost, order sizes by price, number of contracts by premium, leverage ratios, liquidity ratios, operations ratios, profitability ratios, and display these variables resulting from the math operation(s) on the display screen simultaneously along with descriptive acronyms. 
     
     
         62 . An electronic hand held device of  claim 54 , where the hand held electronic device has a set of instructions or computer program and, when executed, causes a processor to calculate and display trading and investment variables on the display screen. 
     
     
         63 . An electronic hand held device of  claim 54 , where the hand held electronic device determines COST, SELL, and MARGIN variables. 
     
     
         64 . An electronic hand held device of  claim 63 , where the hand held electronic device determines COST, SELL, and MARGIN variables where the user can enter variables or numbers through buttons/ or key registers, and then depress one of the buttons to solve for the unknown variable and display this variable on the display screen. 
     
     
         65 . An electronic hand held device of  claim 64 , where the hand held electronic device determines COST, SELL, and MARGIN variables based on internal profit or return rate calculations executed by the processor, and then displayed on the display screen. 
     
     
         66 . An electronic hand held calculator comprising:
 An input means,   A processor, said processor configured to execute trading and investment equations, and   A display to provide answers to trading and investment calculations.