Recent posts detailed observing market data during pre-, current, and post-market sessions. The post View Pre and Post Sessions for Stocks detailed the steps to displaying a chart that included Pre-, Current, and Post-sessions using bid and asks for building the bar data during the Pre- and Post… more
This post, View Pre and Post Sessions for Stocks, detailed creating a custom session in CQG IC or QTrader to view on a chart pre-market and post market Bid and Ask activity for stocks.
Included with the post was a downloadable CQG PAC to install a page displaying four charts that employed… more
CQG IC and QTrader users can chart bid and ask orders activity for stocks during pre-market trading hours and after-market trading hours. This requires a custom session and setting the chart data to include bids and asks.
For Nasdaq, pre-market trading hours are 4:00 am to 9:30 am, Eastern… more
Excel users with RTD links to both market and study data can design a real-time dashboard that can monitor a portfolio of instruments and the status of various studies. This is the topic of this post.
First, be careful regarding the number of instruments and studies being pulled from CQG… more
Traders who look to forward curves for analysis can create forward curves using Excel RTD calls. This post details some ways to create forward curves and some "tricks" to make the forward curves reflect the market details.
The common way to create a forward curve chart would be to plot the… more
The forward curves dashboard displays futures contracts White Maize (symbol: WMAZ), Yellow Maize (symbol: YMAZ), Wheat (symbol: WEAT), Soybeans (symbol: SOYA), and Sunflower Seeds (symbol: SUNS), traded on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The dashboard displays market data and forward curves for… more
The Excel MAXIF function returns the maximum value from a range of cells and a criteria range. For example. The downloadable sample at the bottom of this post is determining the best performance of stocks by sectors in the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100. The performance statistics are annual,… more
Entering a spread symbol in CQG One's Quote Spreadsheet offers the feature where the first symbol is entered, such as ZSES1 for the one month soybean calendar spreads and selecting the arrow a list of all one month calendar spreads is displayed.
However, if what is needed is a list… more
The Excel Treemap chart displays a hierarchical view of the data. The Treemap chart below displays the annualized performance of the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The size of the squares indicates the relative performance with Walmart Inc. (S.WMT) up the most and Merck & Co… more
In the CQG Quote Spreadsheet the first symbol of a list of symbols can be entered and then hitting the key combination of CTRL+Enter will populate the spreadsheet with all of the available symbols for that particular market.
The same technique can be used for calendar spreads. Below… more