Trading Studies >> Watch Video



 
Incorporate trade data into your exit strategies. Using CQG’s new trading studies, you can now consider trade data in your design of custom studies, conditions, and alerts. This data, including open trade equity, position, and profit and loss, can be a valuable factor in determining an exit strategy for defining an event as part of a condition and for triggering an alert action, such as placing an order. These studies can also be used to graphically monitor trade data on charts.  

Order Desk >> Watch Video


 

Enter the market immediately without having to circumvent market data components typically found on a fully integrated monitoring and trading application. There are times you want to enter the market as quickly as possible, no matter where that market is at the time. Order Desk allows you to do just that. Order Desk is a streamlined order entry window divested of its market-monitoring garb.

Note, though, that the market data component doesn’t have to be abandoned. Link Order Desk to any of CQG’s market monitoring tools for the same benefits of integration. Order Desk provides flexibility to those traders who prefer to use separate applications for market monitoring and order placement.

Make Order Desk your own. Display settings provide incredible versatility, allowing you to choose the components you wish to display, the placement of those components on the window, and the tab order for those components. Order Desk also fully supports keyboard trading, so you can abandon that mouse.

You can open Order Desk using the recently added Trade button on the main toolbar.  

Multiplication and Division in Synthetic Spread Formulas


 

Spread similar commodities quoted in different currencies. Trade ratios. By adding the ability to multiply and divide in synthetic strategy formulas, CQG significantly expands your options when devising strategies.

Commodities quoted in different currencies can be converted to a single currency. For example, SPREAD(FSUGR - SPREAD(2.2046 / 100 * SBE * FUS / 1000)).

You can trade Gasoline/Crude Oil, Gold/Silver, Gold/Crude as well as other well-known ratios. For example, SPREAD(RBE/CLE).

Use these formulas with CQG’s full suite of charting and analytics tools.

CQG Spreader handles orders with maximum efficiency. Server-side order management ensures faster execution. Benefit from ultra-low latency no matter where you are on the globe.  

Sub-Accounts on the Orders and Positions Window


 

Brokers, improve your workflow by adding a sub-account to identify customer orders while trading from a single account. If you trade multiple customer accounts through one account, you can use order comments to name customer accounts. You can then sort orders by customer for a series of snapshots of those accounts. If a customer calls looking for information, you can respond immediately by filtering orders and positions information by that account.  

Delayed Exchanges Available on Market Scan  >> Watch Video

Add delayed exchanges to your scans, thereby using, for example, daily data in your analysis without your having to subscribe to real-time exchange data. Please contact CQG for more information about our market scan application. 

Windows Grouping >> Watch Video


 

Expand the relationships between windows by taking advantage of added windows-linking flexibility. Our popular linking windows have been enhanced to include grouping.

Only one master window can be linked to child windows, but with grouping, windows have a sibling relationship. When you change any sibling window, the same change is made on all of the other sibling windows.

Grouping windows allows you to optimize window management and save real estate.  

Display of Multiple Volume Profiles >> Watch Video 

If you have more than one volume profile applied to a chart, hover your mouse over the profile to expose all values.

This added feature allows you to see volume changes on different time intervals.  

Trading Preferences: Keyboard Keys >> Watch Video

Program your custom keyboard from our significantly expanded list of keyboard shortcuts.

Even without custom hardware, keyboard traders are sure to cheer this comprehensive set of shortcuts that provides keyboard access to all the tools they need to place and manage orders. 

Sound Board >> Watch Video




Make sure you know when a market is moving without having to maintain visual contact with windows displaying market data. Set a sound notification to have the system monitor the markets for you and alert you of sweep and other actions. That way you don’t miss potentially meaningful data about current market behavior.

Don’t let market activity go unnoticed among your trading windows. Set unobtrusive sound notifications for changes in last trade or inside market and for DOM changes to inside market or whole book.

The Sound Board can be used in conjunction with DOMTrader®, Order Ticker, Order Ticket, Portfolio Time and Sales, Quote Board, and Time and Sales. 

Other Enhancements >> Watch Video

• Take advantage of your 64-bit system capacity and allocate more memory to CQG IC. We have increased the default for Memory and Disk Space Usage parameter to 2048.
• Disable proportional execution in situations where you do not want the first lot of the secondary leg placed until all lots are filled on the primary leg. For example, consider a 5:3 strategy. Disabling proportional execution allows the system to fill all five lots before the three lots are triggered.
  
  
  
  
• Set Autoscale without Studies as the default for all new charts.
• The Remove Study window has some added flexibility. Select one or more studies, then either press the Delete key on your keyboard, click the Remove Selected button on the window, or double-click. Once all studies have been removed, the window closes automatically.

For questions on version 12.1, please contact CQG Customer Support.