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This Microsoft Excel® macro enabled dashboard pulls in the 30-Day Fed Funds market data traded on the CME Globex platform.

The Dashboard enables the user to enter in the symbol for the first contract. Use: ZQE+Month+2 digit year, such as ZQEJ23.

There are three forward… more

This Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet presents 3-Month SOFR market data. The data includes nearly ten years of quarterly contracts for outrights and exchange-traded three-month and six-month calendar spreads.

The best bid and ask, queue volume size, last, net change, and traded volume… more

This Microsoft Excel® dashboard pulls in the 3-month SOFR market data traded on the CME Globex platform.

The Dashboard was updated to enable the user to enter in the symbol for the first contract. Use: SR3+Month+2 digit year, such as SR3H23.

More new features are detailed below.… more

The London Metal Exchange (LME) was founded in 1877. The LME is the world center for the trading of industrial metals. The majority of all non-ferrous metal futures business is transacted on the LME platforms.

The LME is popular for its close ties to industry. The aspect of physical… more

The Spread Bar chart displays spread bar values based on a user set parameter for snap shots at certain intervals.

This is a superior method to simply plotting the spread prices. For example, the crack spread 42*HOE-CLE when entered as a symbol on a bar chart is converted into a line… more

Microsoft® Excel has a Text function which is useful for combining text with market data. For example, you may want to have your Excel dashboard display in the same cell the percent net change value of a market with the word “Higher” or “Lower”. You cannot in a cell use the RTD formula for… more

CQG Product Specialist Stan Yabroff designed a CQG page for customers to track and analyze a market’s implied volatility and historical volatility. This post details the features and functionality of the CQG page.

The benefit of this CQG page is you can quickly identify across a large… more

The Microsoft® Excel 3-D chart is different from the Excel Scatter Plot chart. The Scatter chart uses a fixed size for the chart data points. The 3-D chart accesses an additional column to set the width of the chart data points. In this post setting up a 3-D chart is detailed for monitoring the… more

CQG One, the next generation flagship trading and data visualization product for the financial markets now offers the Spread Builder and User Defined Strategies (UDS).

Watch this video to learn about using the Spread Builder: An easy-to-use interface for setting up strategies.

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Here, we introduce placing Batch Orders using the CQG XL Toolkit. At the bottom of the post is a downloadable Excel sample. For more details there are two links to the CQG IC/QTrader Help files and the CQG One Help file.

The CQG XL Toolkit has been upgraded to include functionality to… more