Available Formats

• QFormulas or Quote Formulas: Define specific market spreads, such as the energy "crack" spread, the soybean "crush," gold/silver ratio, interest rate spreads, butterfly spreads, Eurodollar strips, and more. You can convert London Metal Exchange quotes into COMEX-equivalent prices. More than 200 formulas are supplied. To observe any spread, open a new chart and enter the Q number.
• Conditions: Define specific technical situations, such as high-volume bars, study criteria met (for example, RSI > 75), reversal bars, and more. Conditions are used to color or place markers over price bars. More than thirty conditions are supplied.
• User Values: Set conditions that return specific values, and use those values with other formulas and functions.
• Custom Studies: Develop indicators based on specific technical market actions using inputs you select from the Formula Toolbox. Name the study and add it as a button to your study collection display on the toolbars.
• Custom Sessions: Design sessions specific to your trading strategies.
• Trading systems: Take advantage of CQG’s backtesting modules, including the Entry Signal Evaluator, Trade System Optimizer, and backtesting capability. CQG trading systems are well-suited for customers who want to test procedures and technical setups on historical data.