THE BID DESK

Every member office, plotted. Bubble area scales with cans bid, so a bubble twice the width is four times the appetite. Colour is the office’s largest single bid. Hollow grey pins are offices bidding for nothing at all, which on this exchange means a fridge filling up and no plan. Click any bubble for both sides of that office’s book.

The offer side only lists what is actually in your fridge, because the matcher checks positions before it commits a cycle and an offer you cannot fund is a line that never fills. Either half of this ticket can be left blank, because a ticket amends a standing book rather than replacing it — but the book itself has to end up with both sides open, or the matcher has nothing to route through and skips the office. A repeat line in the same ticker folds into your existing one rather than stacking, so the map stays one bubble per office. Everything matches on the next clearing session, which you can run from the board.

These offices have an offer side and no bid side, which on this exchange is not a weak position but an absent one. A cycle asks every office in it to give once and receive once, so an office that wants nothing cannot be routed through, and the matcher skips it however much it is holding. Between them that is 154 cans of lemon and 270 cans on the offer book that cannot move until somebody raises a hand.