In this article I want to show how misleading a peak-ahead failure can be on a trading system.

I was working on a countertrend system and the backtesting results showed that it picked up… more

This CME Group news release announces the winners of the CQG-sponsored CME Group Trading Challenge. The 12th annual competition for college and university students attracted over 500 teams… more

Boca Raton, FL, March 10, 2015 - At FIA Boca, CQG, Inc. announced live connectivity to Eris Exchange, a U.S.-based futures exchange offering swap futures as a capital-efficient alternative to OTC… more

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

The price of active month NYMEX crude oil is what everyone is focusing on these days, but that price is only a view from thirty thousand feet of what is actually going on in the global oil patch.… more

The bull market in the dollar continues to power forward. The US dollar index was up 11.97% in 2014. So far this year the greenback is up another 5.16%. The dollar is one of the strongest markets… more

Over the past three weeks, April crude oil found a rotational balance range of 4867-to-5505, traveling from the bottom to the top and back to the bottom of that range a few times. However, three… more

This Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet is an updated version of the CQG-Powered Excel Horizontal DOM Dashboard, which also includes a correlation display. Two histogram charts have been added to each… more

Quite some while ago I showed, in a very simple way, how to overlay 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 data in one chart. I created two very simple code snippets to accomplish that.

This time, I… more

For eight straight trading days, March natural gas has been contained within a 2665-to-2896 rotational balance range. On Friday, February 20, 2015, the market gapped open higher, above the 2896… more