A method and system for trading long and short inventory positions in
securities for participants involves systematically obtaining long and
short position information from each participant, processing the
information in accordance with participant-controlled parameters,
matching the participants' short positions to other participants' long
positions and feeding the resultant activity back to each participant in
the form of system-generated repo and reverse repo trades, while
maintaining the anonymity of the participants. Another aspect enables
trading baskets of serial overnight trades, each of which is treated as
an independent overnight repo/reverse trade for financial reporting
purposes, with corresponding notional amount, that involves, for example,
cancellation of a basket trade and creating in its place a series of
overnight trades corresponding to the basket trade.