CQG Charting Features
CQG offers 15 different charting styles. The list includes: Bar, Candlestick, Constant Volume Bar, Equalize Sessions, Fill Gap, Line, Market Profile, No gap, Percent bar, Point-&-figure, Spread bar, Tick, TickChartSmoothing, TradeFlow™ , Yield bar
The choices provide traders the visual format that fits their trading style. Special charting styles include Constant Volume bars, where the bars are built by the number of executed trades or ticks, and are not time based. TradeFlow Charts are CQG’s exclusive look at the action by traders at the inside market level.
All of the charts make heavy use of right-click menus enabling the trader to customize the look of the charts. The left-hand toolbar lists chart management elements including setup, chart resizing arrows, adding studies, intraday and historical charts, chart types, and pointer tools. The study toolbar buttons are added from the Study menu, which is reached by clicking on the Study Toolbar button.
A right-click on the any element on the chart will bring up menus for making the look of the chart meet the trader’s specifications.
Click anywhere on the chart to access cursors, pointer tools, add studies and more.
Click on the Setup button to set chart preferences, colors and fonts. Set preferences, as well, as customize the toolbar.
Bars and studies can be color-coded and/or marked based on a condition. In this example, the price bars have a marker when the RSI is closing over 70 and the RSI histogram bars are colored red.