Believe it or not, before I started working here at CQG in January of 2006, I had been using their analytical platform since 1984 (except for a couple of years in the early 90s). So, I have watched how the platform has evolved. At this point, the CQG product has moved from analysis to the […]
Your CQG has a number of ways to let you get access to symbols. There is the CSpec toolbar button, which can be found under the More toolbar button. There is the Symbol Finder that is available when you right click on the “?” up in the top right hand corner. You can go to […]
The year 2007 marks the 20-year anniversary of the stock market crash of 1987. I was there for this bit of history. At the time, I was a fixed income trader for the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle. It was quite a two-day period from Friday through Monday. I remember how volatile the bond […]
The stock market is closed today to observe the National Day of Mourning for President Gerald R. Ford.
A reader inquired about my TradeFlow 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 TradeFlow, we could see the potential of knowing who the aggressors are: the buyers or the sellers. A TradeFlow bar, which uses the best […]
In my article, Tracking Technology versus the S&P 500 I point out that technology, as measured by the NASDAQ 100 Index, will at times lead the direction of the equity markets, I showed a number of charts where tracking the ration of the NADAQ 100 to the S&P 500 gave you an early warning to […]
One way traders are chopped up is to lose their patience and start chasing the market. A good guideline is to pay special attention to a market when it is trading near the previous day’s high or low. These previously established support and resistance levels are key price action points. Markets may edge through, only […]
A product like CQG has such a breadth of tools available for traders that it is easy to become locked in to using CQG for a specific purpose because you don’t have the time to explore what other features may be available. As an aid, I have written a number of individual articles, and more […]
The Futures Industry Association Expo in Chicago is running from November 28 through November 30. More than 4000 market professionals from more than 20 countries are expected to attend the FIA’s Expo 2006. Companies, such as CQG will profile their current solutions for traders, as well as provide views of new solutions in the pipeline. […]
Funds flow from market to market, such as out of fixed income and into equities when traders see good readings on the economy. One step traders do is to create a quote page with all of the asset classes available for trading. In this example, U.S equity indices, International indices, key U.S. stocks, cash FX, […]