Andy Hecht

The silver bulls had reason to cheer in May as the second-leading precious metal and highly speculative silver futures market reached a significant milestone.

Technical resistance for the… more

Thom Hartle

Most of the Fixed Income futures markets are lower so far this week. The TSE 10 Year JGB, Jun 24 contract is down -0.38 %. The best performer in the USA market is 5yr US Treasury Notes (… more

Thom Hartle

This midweek snapshot shows a predominantly negative performance for the Equity Index futures markets. The best performer in the Japanese market is the TOPIX, Jun 24 with a -0.58% loss. The… 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

Thom Hartle

This post offers two topics: An introduction to the website FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and CQG's XData functionality, which is the… more

Thom Hartle

The pivot point is the arithmetic average of the high (H), low (L), and closing (C) prices of the active instrument, Pivot Point = (H+L+C)/3 or Pivot Point = HLC3. The study applied to a chart… more

Thom Hartle

Most of the Fixed Income futures markets are lower so far this week. The TSE 10 Year JGB, Jun 24 contract is down -0.32 %. The best performer in the USA market is the 30yr US Treasury Bonds… more

Thom Hartle

This midweek snapshot shows a negative performance for most of the Equity Index futures markets. The best performer in the Japanese market is the JPX Prime 150 Index, Jun 24 with a -0.29%… 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

Thom Hartle

Pie charts are a popular visual presentation used by analysts for detailing a percentage of a whole, with a circle representing the whole and slices representing the categories that make up the… more