A system and method for risk analysis of a portfolio of derivative
products is disclosed which is conducted based on a set of flexible
rules. The system and method allow creating predefined sets of products
for the purpose of future risk offsets. If a futures trade as a subset of
that set of products that met a threshold level, then the subset is
assigned the offset value (or a pro rata or other portion of the offset
value) of the predefined set. For example, assume that the predefined set
consists of one S&P 500 futures, one NASDAQ futures, one S&P Midcap 400
futures and one Russell 1000 futures and the threshold is three. If the
futures trader holds any three of those four futures, the three futures
can be grouped, assigned an offset value, and this group can be used as
one asset for purpose of further risk offsets.