Archive for November, 2007

A Sneak Peak at FIA 2007: Bracket Orders and Trailing Limits

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

CQG will again this year at the FIA be displaying some of our latest developments for traders. Here, I will give you an early view of two of our latest work for traders using CQG for order routing: bracket orders and trailing limits.
Bracket orders

Bracket orders are an OPO (order-places-order) combined with an OCO (order-cancels-order). The […]

The Order Display Study

Monday, November 12th, 2007

The Order Display study shows on an intraday bar chart your entry points for executed trades and any resting orders. The executed trades are upward arrows for buys and downward arrows for sells. Any open orders are shown as horizontal lines from the time point the order was placed.
The Order Display study works well in […]

Market Transparency — A look at the E-mini S&P 500 during the FOMC Announcement

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

On October 31, at 14:15 EST or 13:15 CST the FOMC released its new policy directive. This announcement often has a big impact on the markets. I think it is an interesting study to follow how the E-mini S&P traded just before and following the announcement using the CQG TFlow charts and Pre-Trade Analytics studies.

The […]

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