Archive for the 'TFlow (Introduction)' Category

The DOMTracker Oscillator Study

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

The previous post introduced the DOMTracker, which is part of the Pre-Trade Analytics group included in 7.5. This post details another study called DOMTracker Oscillator. This study is the difference between ask volume line (red) and the bid volume line (green) from the DOMTracker Study.

To review, the bid volume line (green) of the DOMTracker study […]

CQG’s Pre-Trade Analytics

Monday, May 21st, 2007

CQG’s upcoming release of 7.5 has a number of interesting features built upon the market transparency available from the exchange’s order book for electronically traded products. This collection of studies is dubbed Pre-Trade Analytics. The first study detailed here is called the DOMTracker. The study is only applicable to TFlow charts.

DOMTracker, as the name implies, […]

TFlow Studies

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

TFlow studies running with the TFlow charts provide traders with additional insight into the degree that traders are buying by lifting the offered price or are selling by hitting bids.

Here, we will look at some examples of these two studies: TFlow Volume (TFVol) and TFlow On Balance Volume (TFOBV).

TFlow Volume breaks down the trades […]

More on TFlow and Aggregation

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

I have discussed TFlow in the past, but this article is the basis for a series of future articles built upon TFlow charting. A quick review is in order.

TFlow charts and studies bring to traders key market details. Primarily, whether traders are hitting bids or lifting offers to generate the last price. This information is […]

TFlow Aggregation

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

A reader inquired about my TFlow charts referencing a five-tick range. This is called Aggregation, and is available in Version 7.4. A short review is in order. When CQG first introduced TFlow, we could see the potential of knowing who the aggressors are: the buyers or the sellers. A TFlow bar, which uses the best […]

TFlow and Constant Volume Bars

Friday, November 17th, 2006

A gap down opening in reaction to the poor housing data has sellers in control during the morning trading in the e-mini S&P 500. Before we see today’s action, we will review yesterday’s TFlow chart.
Before, we look at yesterday’s TFlow chart, I want to show another charting style available from CQG and that is the […]

Support and Resistance Zones

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Support and resistance is often thought of as a price level. For example, analysts and traders might discuss support for the E-mini S&P 500 futures contract is at the previous day’s low of 1343.00. As a trader, if you are looking for a place to go long would you wait for the market to actually […]

TFlow™ Charts, Studies and the E-mini S&P 500

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

At the CQG Web site, there are a series of articles by me detailing TFlow, TFlow Studies, and my customs studies. In addition, a Component Pac is available that will install my two custom studies into CQG.
TFlow is CQG’s innovative charting style that uses color-coded bars to track traded volume at the ask price versus […]

TFlow™ and the E-mini S&P 500

Monday, October 9th, 2006

TFlow is CQG’s innovative charting style that is color coded to track traded volume at the ask price versus bid price. The high and the low of the TFlow bar is the best bid and ask prices. The TFlow bar is colored green for the percentage of volume at the ask price (buying) and red […]

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