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 […]
TradeFlow studies running with the TradeFlow 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: TradeFlow Volume (TFVol) and TradeFlow On Balance Volume (TFOBV).
TradeFlow Volume breaks down the trades […]
I have discussed TradeFlow in the past, but this article is the basis for a series of future articles built upon TradeFlow charting. A quick review is in order.
TradeFlow 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 TradeFlow™, 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, […]