Food Supply and Demand Trend and Outlook in This Transition Year

CQG (Tokyo, Japan) will once again co-host the Commodity Seminar with the CME Group. The theme of this year's seminar is "… more

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The Moving Average Convergence/Divergence indicator (MACD) was invented by Gerald Appel over 40 years ago. The study is an unbounded oscillator with two lines: MACD and MACDA.

MACD =… more
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So far this week the Fixed Income futures markets are higher. The TSE 10 Year JGB, Sep 24 contract is up 0.09%. The best performer in the US market is the 30yr US Treasury Bonds (Globex),… more

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This midweek snapshot shows a positive performance for the Equity Index futures markets. However, he best performer in the Japanese market is the TSE REIT Index, Sep 24 contract with a -0.… more

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Each Wednesday this article will be updated with the current seasonal study using CQG's Seasonal analysis applied to the Soybean, Wheat and Corn markets. You can download the CQG pac providing the… more

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This posts details the use of two Excel functions: AVERAGEIFS and COUNTIFS. To start, a simple example of using the AVERAGEIFS function is presented.

In the image below column cells A2:A10… more

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So far this week the Fixed Income futures markets are higher. The TSE 10 Year JGB, Sep 24 contract is up +0.90%. The best performer in the US market is the 30yr US Treasury Bonds (Globex),… more

Thom Hartle

This midweek snapshot shows a positive performance for the Equity Index futures markets. The best performer in the Japanese market is the TOPIX, Sep 24 contract with a +4.34% gain. The best… more

Thom Hartle

Each Wednesday this article will be updated with the current seasonal study using CQG's Seasonal analysis applied to the Soybean, Wheat and Corn markets. You can download the CQG pac providing the… more

Exchange Traded Spreads Descriptions now provide number of contracts and actuals contracts.

Here is an example using the Quote Spreadsheet V2:

Here is an example using the All… more