CQG offers fourteen different charting styles. One I like to use for tracking the energy markets is the Analog Chart. This chart style allows you to overlay different markets on the same chart. In my example, I have heating oil (the blue line), gasoline (the red line), and crude oil (the black bars) all plotted […]
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 […]
Another feature coming in 7.6 is the ability to link windows. There is a main or parent window and then all of the other windows are linked to the parent window. If you change symbols in the parent window, for example in the image provided the Quote spreadsheet is the parent window, then the other […]
Version 7.6 should be released later on this year and it has some features that combine monitoring the markets and order routing into one solution. The Quote Spreadsheet has additional columns available for placing orders at the current best bid or offer, as well as at the market. You can set up groups of markets […]
Short-term trading plans often use moving averages or other studies, such as Bollinger Bands, as a point of reference for the trader. With CQG 7.5 , traders can display chart study values as small square markers on the DOM price ladder. Therefore, you can see right on the DOM price ladder the live values of […]
Here is another new feature coming in 7.5: The Order Display Study places symbols for executed trades, resting limit orders, and stop orders on the Market Profile Chart. And, you can trade right from the Market Profile chart using SnapTrader.
For example, here, a short sale was made in the “D” period, (highlighted in red), and […]
Traders using a depth-of-market view in their DOMTrader or Order Ticket can see the activities of other traders at the inside market and around the inside market on the DOM Ladder. However, the numerical display and the speed with which traders are adding, canceling, and modifying orders in the exchanges order book makes interpreting the […]
Active traders are always looking for situations to exploit in different markets. Any particular situation can be converted to one or a set of conditions. To aid traders looking at different markets for particular situations, CQG’s Market Scan can define a set of conditions, search a portfolio of instruments for those meeting the conditions, and […]
The CQG Order Ticker gives you a live view of the changes occurring in the exchange order book including trades executed, orders placed, orders canceled, and orders modified. The Order Ticker uses a scrolling window similar to the old ticker tapes for the stock market. This link leads to examples with labels of the denotations […]
One of the fun aspects about working for CQG is I get to see some new tools in the pipeline, and in this section, “From the Alpha/Beta Corner”, I will share with you some that I think you will find interesting, too.
The first one I will review is one scheduled for release with CQG 7.5 […]