Excel

If you use Windows® 7 and have upgraded to Office 2013, you may have noticed that price updates in your CQG-powered Excel dashboards now look like little slot machine quotes with prices rolling instead of just updating. The reason is that... more

CQG supports the Microsoft Excel RealTimeData (RTD) function in CQG Integrated Client version 8.4 and greater for delivering market data and other information to Excel. Through the combination of CQG and Excel, you can create highly-customized... more

Today, designing Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets can be more than just creating tables with a lot of numbers. As shown here in my columns, you can use conditional formatting such as heat mapping, data bars, and other Excel features to... more

When designing Excel® spreadsheets like the example below, there are a few shortcuts you can use to make the process easier. Here, we will use the CQG Symbol Search and Quote SpreadSheet to add RealTimeData (RTD) formulas for displaying market... more

RTD allows you to build elaborate quote displays that go beyond straight market quotes such as spread quotes between two markets. However, with more distant delivery months, there may be instances where one market is being quoted, but another... more

When designing spreadsheets to visualize the markets, it is tempting to title rows and columns, but then you have to scan top to bottom and left to right to identify exactly what you are viewing. This isn't a problem when the quote display is... more

One valuable feature in Excel® is conditional formatting. There is a wide array of rules available in the Conditional Formatting group after you select the Home tab in Excel. Here, we will use a simple color the cell condition if the last quote... more

When writing formulas for calling market prices into Microsoft Excel® using RTD, you can choose between four different formats for the values returned. Here, I will review those formats and offer a custom view of fixed income market data that... more

CQG Integrated Client version 8.4 supports RealTimeData for sending data and other market information to Microsoft Excel®. This feature opens up many opportunities for creating custom displays and other ways to better manage your workflow. One... more

I recently received a question regarding one of my images illustrating how I use Microsoft Excel® with CQG. In the image below, there is an Excel spreadsheet detailing current market activity along with CQG News and a CQG chart. It appears that... more