values in fields 614 616 618 620 622 624 626 628 630 and or 632 these values may be a total dollar amount of buy and sell side transactions a total dollar amount of buy side only transactions a total dollar amount of sell side only transactions a count of the total number of buy and sell side transactions a count of the total number of buy side only transactions a count of the total number of sell side only transactions any other suitable values or combinations of values that are related to order submission of the counterparty and or any other characteristic of the trader or any other suitable values or combinations of values that are independent of order submissions of the counterparty and any other characteristic of the trader although interface 600 is illustrated with fields 614 616 618 620 and 622 in a buy column 634 and fields 624 626 628 630 and 632 in a sell column 636 the present invention may be implemented with only a single column for total buy and sell transactions or for only one of buy and sell transactions although steps 402 404 and 406 are illustrated in process 400 of fig4 in a specific order these steps may be executed in any suitable order or in parallel if desired after a trader has specified warning limits at step 406 of fig4 process 400 next waits for new bids and offers to be entered at step 408 as explained above bids and offers may be entered at workstations 102 or 104 using an interface 300 as illustrated in and described in connection with fig3 once a new bid or offer has been entered process 400 next receives the bid or offer at step.