Behavioral and brain research is revealing that the two main factors in great trading lie in how traders use their qualitative judgments.

Predicting others and understanding oneself are the… more

Thom Hartle

This Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet presents two views of current market data and two correlation matrices. The market data sections use the symbols entered into the first column. The last quoted… more

Thom Hartle

This Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet presents market data and forward curves of the Euribor, Eurodollar, and Short Sterling contracts. The data includes the outrights and exchange-traded quarterly… more

Thom Hartle

This Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet presents market data and forward curves of the Globex heating oil contracts. The data includes the outrights, exchange-traded calendar spreads, and synthetic… more

Helmut Mueller

A couple of months ago we looked into CQG's built-in Divergence Index and how to use it.

Following up on this topic, I want to show a much simpler approach using the Formula Toolbox.

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Andy Hecht

Commodity prices continue to be in a bear market. Industrial raw material prices have plunged over recent months. The price of crude oil halved since June. Iron ore prices have plummeted, and… more

Thom Hartle

This Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet presents frequency distribution analysis of historical implied volatility (IV) data.

CQG offers its own historical options implied volatility index for… more

Andy Hecht

In my January 13 article, A Look at the Copper Market, I wrote, "...the support level at $2.72 may become more and more distant in the market's rearview mirror." Since the day I made that… more

Helmut Mueller

One of the theories behind Market Profile®* is the opening trading range. This is the high and the low from the first hour of trading. We want to create a trading system around that and use the… more

Thom Hartle

This Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet presents market data and forward curves of the Globex natural gas contracts. The data includes the outrights, exchange-traded calendar spreads, and synthetic… more