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This dashboard provides market data for CME products. The dashboard uses a navigation bar instead of tabs.

The left-hand side provides market data for products. The right-hand side provides market data for one-month calendar spreads.

The FOREX tabs cover 10 markets.… more

For those who trade based on the price action unfolding on a chart the appropriate trade routing interface is the SnapTrader 2, the topic of this post.

Below, the SnapTrader 2 (horizontal style) is added to the chart and the Order Book is also added to the chart.

Below, the… more

With the advent of nearly 24-hour electronic trading, one technical issue is market data servers require to be cleared of today's trading activity before the opening of the evening sessions. This can be inconvenient if today's trading activity needs to be accessible after this period when today'… more

A typical historical Excel RTD dashboard pulls in market data using the bar index parameter. Below, the bar index is in column A. The most current bar is "0". The previous bar is "-1", etc.

However, you may want to start with a specific date and time for pulling in data. Excel's… more

This post walks the reader through building option chains in Excel. The CQG RTD Toolkit offers this functionality, however, the same feature can be implemented using Excel's CONCATENATE function. This post details both approaches.

The CQG RTD Toolkit is installed with CQG IC and QTrader.… more

This post provides a guideline to reviewing the outcomes of a pattern recognition approach to the markets.

Two recent posts on Workspaces discussed CQG's Candlestick Formations Study.

CQG Primer: Candlesticks Formations Study introduces the CQG study. The study is actually a set of… more

A recent post "CQG Primer: Candlesticks Formations Study" introduced this study available in CQG IC and QTrader. The study is a collection of fifteen conditions. The Candlestick formations appear as overlays on the chart in the colors selected in parameters. The abbreviations of the particular… more

CQG IC and QTrader offer the Candlestick Formations study.

The Candlestick Formations study is a collection of conditions. Candlestick formations appear as overlays on the chart in the colors selected in parameters.

Candlestick Formations consist of 1-, 2-, or 3-bar patterns. These… more

This post details adding HTML News Links to an Excel dashboard for monitoring equities and ETFs.

The news source is Finance.Yahoo.com. An example link for Microsoft is https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MSFT/.

Scrolling down the web site page below the chart are current news stories for… more

This macro-enabled Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet tracks the holdings of the Invesco S&P 500® Momentum ETF (SPMO). The ETF is based on the S&P 500 Momentum Index (Index).

Recently, the ETF traded to all time new highs.

During the trading session, the individual stocks… more