Method of providing a financial event identification service

1. A method of providing modified financial event data through a financial event identification service, comprising: identifying complex patterns within stock market data; generating a database of financial event data, the financial event data comprising fundamental events and technical events, a technical event locating the time period when an oscillator has crossed a threshold, or when a stock price has interacted with an indicator or confirmed the existence of a previously-identified complex pattern, and a fundamental event locating the time period when a stock price has interacted with a price value computed from at least one of company accounting and other economic data; making available to a client a subset of the financial event data based on a client profile and client application specific selection criteria; receiving from the client an identification of a pattern of interest from within the identified complex patterns, and a request for financial event data related to the pattern of interest; querying the subset to identify the financial event data related to the pattern of interest; dynamically modifying via a computer, the identified financial event data in accordance with other financial event data substantially coincident with the identified financial event data; superposing the modified financial event data on the pattern of interest; and displaying the pattern of interest with the superposed financial event data to the client.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the client is a financial service provider.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the client is an end user.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising formatting the modified financial event data in a format suitable for transmission to the client.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein formatting the modified financial event data in a format suitable for transmission to the client comprises formatting the modified financial event data into one of HTML, XML and SOAP.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein dynamically modifying the identified financial event data comprises identifying an additional relevant financial event and incorporating the additional relevant financial event into the identified financial event data.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein dynamically modifying the identified financial event data comprises identifying an irrelevant financial event and eliminating the irrelevant financial event from the identified financial event data.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein generating a database of financial event data comprises identifying a simple pattern financial event.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein generating a database of financial event data comprises identifying a pattern recognition derived financial event.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein generating a database of financial event data comprises computation of a time series.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein generating a database of financial event data comprises computation of a price forecast.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein identifying predetermined patterns within the market data is accomplished by applying a loosely specified algorithm (LSA) to the market data.

13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the complex patterns are reversal patterns.

14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the reversal patterns comprise double top, head and shoulders top, double bottom, or head and shoulders bottom reversal patterns.

15. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the complex patterns are asymmetrical complex patterns.

16. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the oscillator is a relative strength index oscillator.

17. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the indicator is a moving average.

18. A system for providing modified financial event data through a financial event identification service, the system comprising:

means for identifying complex patterns within stock market data;

means for generating a database of financial event data, the financial event data comprising fundamental events and technical events, a technical event locating the time period when an oscillator has crossed a threshold, or when a stock price has interacted with an indicator or confirmed the existence of a previously-identified complex pattern, and a fundamental event locating the time period when a stock price has interacted with a price value computed from at least one of company accounting and other economic data;

means for making available to a client a subset of the financial event data based on a client profile and client application specific selection criteria;

means for receiving from the client an identification of a pattern of interest from within the identified complex patterns, and a request for financial event data related to the pattern of interest;

means for querying the subset to identify the financial event data related to, or substantially coincident with, the pattern of interest;

means for dynamically modifying the identified financial event data in accordance with other financial event data substantially coincident with the identified financial event data;

means for superposing the modified financial event data on the pattern of interest; and

means for displaying the pattern of interest with the superposed financial event data to the client.