According to one embodiment, a method of managing trading is provided. In
a market for a particular type of instrument, electronic data including
buy orders and sell orders are received from a plurality of traders. Each
buy order has an associated bid price and each sell order has an
associated offer price. A determination is made of whether the particular
trading order is an outlying trading order by electronically determining
whether the particular trading order differs from at least one comparison
price by more than a threshold value. If it is determined that the
particular trading is an outlying trading order, a restrictive action is
taken regarding one or more trading orders. For example, if a trader
subsequently submits another trading order that would trade with the
outlying trading order, an electronic alert message may be sent to the
trader and the subsequent trading order may be prevented from trading
with the outlying trading order at least temporarily.