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New Offering Provides Direct Access to Premium Benchmarks and Analysis Content for Hemp, Frac Sand, East African Commodities CHICAGO / DENVER, Jan. 26, 2021 CQG, a leading global provider of high-performance technology solutions for traders, brokers, commercial hedgers, and exchanges, and PanXchange, a Denver-based over-the-counter (OTC) physical commodity exchange and price discovery platform, today announced the launch of a new PanXchange widget within the CQG Desktop platform. The offering gives CQG’s global clients direct access to PanXchange’s premium benchmarks and analysis... more

We are pleased to announce that Nissan, JPX/OSE, and CQG released a trio of collaboration sessions discussing the Rubber Futures Market. While domestic and overseas stock prices are rising, the market for Natural Rubber is also moving remarkably. We see this trend continue towards the end of the year. In these short videos, we would like to introduce the exchange rules and characteristics, its products, as well as the trading practices and future prospects for the rubber markets. Agenda: Mr. Yazu from JPX/OSE discusses the “OSE Rubber Futures Products and World Rubber Futures... more

The Trader Dynamic Index is a combination of RSI and Bollinger Bands. We use a 13 period RSI with a tight moving average on top of it and another moving average on top of this. This is some kind of double smoothing. Also as a 34 period Bollinger Band on the RSI. Of course, the parameters and colors can be changed! RSIp = period of the RSI BBp = period of the Bollinger Bands MA1 = period of the moving average on the RSI used for all calculations 1 = original RSI* MA2 = period of the moving average on the RSI used as a trigger line STDev = Standard Deviation for the... more

When do I need a hybrid trading system for auto execution? Since we released CQG AutoTrader functionality and XLS Trader we have had some use cases were we wanted to combine the best of both worlds. The CQG trade systems tool gives us the functionality to create trade systems with a lot of build in functionality such as canned exits, trailing stops, understanding partial fills to just name a few. It can be very challenging and complex to build these on your own just using Excel. On the other hand you might have calculations, or inputs that you cannot (or do not want to) replicate in CQG’s... more

Perhaps you are pulling market data into Microsoft Excel using RTD functions from CQG and you would like to chart the data in Excel. When you setup the chart you would likely use “Auto” for the high and low values for scaling the vertical axis. However, Excel isn’t as smart as you would want and often will use zero for the minimum value and the resulting chart is somewhat flat. Below is the daily chart for the E-mini S&P futures contract displayed in Excel. A simple Macro can be used to rescale the chart to use minimum and maximum values for the price axis range. The downloadable... more

Louis-Vincent Gave and Yra Harris discuss the most important changes in the economy and finacial markets.  View video here. Presented by Finacial Repression Authority. 

Attached is a podcast discussing the current market situation with Yra Harris, Andrew Perry and Judd Hirschberg using CQG IC charts. View video here. Presented by WhiteWave Trading. 

Attached is a video exploring the Imoku Cloud strategy hosted by Stan Yabroff of CQG. View video here. Presented by WhiteWave Trading. 

General Multi-monitor capability to move widgets and pages out of the main CQG Desktop browser tab Added "Today's Settlement" column to QSS Trading Setting to abbreviate large DOM numbers Added slide trader to mobile mode Added order placed time to available columns in the Download Order Report OTC/HMS Ability to select display symbol in various views Added purchase ticket for elevators Added HMS widgets to mobile mode  We hope that these updates help improve your trading workflow. We continually strive to improve your CQG Desktop experience.... more

The raw material markets continued to make a comeback in the final quarter of 2020 after the global pandemic caused a deflationary spiral taking the prices of most assets to lows in March and April. In Q4, commodities posted an 11.77% gain. The asset class was 9.89% higher in 2020. In 2019, it gained 10.98%. In 2018 commodities lost 6.82%. The price action in Q4 turned a loss for the year into a gain. The overall winner of the 29 for the fourth quarter was lumber that posted a gain of 42.62%, with NYMEX heating oil in second place with a 29.56% gain. Soybean futures were 28.51% higher, and... more

General Added yesterday's settle date and yesterday's close date columns to QSS Improved contrast and coloring for light theme Added PanXchange widget to the App Store OTC/HMS Made GTC default order duration for Basis Trade widget In Basis Trade widget, improved sorting for delivery dropdown Added a clear button to the Basis Trade widget    We hope that these updates help improve your trading workflow. We continually strive to improve your CQG Desktop experience. We invite you to vote for or enter features you want via our CQG Forums... more

CQG System Architect, Shane Pielli presented at FIA Asia V Conference 2020 on CQG’s OTC Marketplace Solution. Please feel free to reach out to your account manager for any questions. Watch

CQG Product Specialist, Anthony Cohen presented at FIA Asia V Conference 2020 on Arbitrage & Spreading Opportunity between INE Copper, CME and LME. Please feel free to reach out to your account manager for any questions. Watch

CQG's Kevin Darby is interviewed by John Lothian about his Path to Electronic Trading. View interview here. Presented by John Lothian News