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 […]
CQG offers fourteen charting styles including a yield chart for fixed income instruments. Here, we will look at Percent Bar charts, a quick and easy way to compare percentage performance of different instruments.
Percent Bar charts display on a percentage basis the current value from one of three user-selected formulas for the starting point: Date, Price […]
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 […]
The equity market is driven by flows of funds from one sector to another for a number of reasons including large money managers directing funds based on their fundamental outlook for the economy. It follows that if the economy is showing signs of growth then money should be flowing into equities that will participate in […]
Many equity traders and analysts focus on the advance decline statistics during the trading day. The advance decline numbers are simply the net number of stocks up from the previous day’s close and the number of stocks down on the day relative to the previous day’s close.
I prefer to focus on the up-volume and down-volume […]
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 […]
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 […]