In a previous posting, Automated Trading Using CQG 7.4 (Trend Line Cross), I explained CQG’s Alert functionality for tracking when the price action crosses a trendline. Discussed were steps on its use for triggering notification and sending orders to the exchange when a trend line was crossed. Here, we will look at the basic Price […]
Back in March, I posted an article detailing the tracking of the traded volume at the bid price versus the ask price on price bars. Yesterday’s release of the New Home Sales created some more examples of the usefulness of tracking the traded volume at the bid and ask price for price bars.
To start, I […]
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 […]
Traders using CQG can set up automated trading based on CQG’s alerts. A CQG alert can send a market order, a cancel order or a liquidate positions order to a futures exchange through CQG’s gateway.
Why use alerts? Today’s global markets offer traders many opportunities and alerts can be one way to continuously stay on top […]
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 […]
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 […]
One CQG feature very important to me is the chart displays. CQG provides fourteen different styles of charting: Bar, Line, Spread bar, Candlestick, Constant Volume Bar, Equalize Sessions, Fill Gap, Market Profile, No Gap, Percent bar, Point-&-figure, Tick TFlow™, and Yield bars.
In addition, you can overlay different markets and studies on the same chart using […]
Today’s trading lexicon includes terms such as programmed trading, black box trading, algorithmic trading, and others. Firms and traders looking to create a link between the exchanges and their own software look to ISVs such as CQG for tools like our API to bring incoming market information into applications, process the information, and output information, […]
I don’t receive any royalties for this. This is just an FYI posting.
I have authored many articles for Active Trader magazine over the years. They have created a “Collection of Articles” series and they have added a second volume of my work to their list.
Article topics range from volume analysis to understanding studies to tracking […]
The first day of trading of the NYBOT products traded on ICE got off to a good start with over 12,000 contracts trading hands. Traders interested in the NYBOT soft commodity markets can execute trades through CQG’s order routing system. This is just one more example of where the trading industry is headed, and at […]