CQG PAC Files

Mar 20, 2023

CQG's Data Quality team has added USDA WASDE Long-Term Projections to the data base. This data is published each February and the report provides projections for the agricultural sector out eleven years.

The easiest way to find the symbols... more

Feb 02, 2023

The London Metal Exchange (LME) was founded in 1877. The LME is the world center for the trading of industrial metals. The majority of all non-ferrous metal futures business is transacted on the LME platforms.

The LME is popular for its... more

Jan 12, 2023

Going all the way back until the famous turtle trading systems, ATR has always been an important measurement for volatility in the markets. ATR’s are still used for exits in trading systems and sometimes for pre trade risk assessment.

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Jan 06, 2023

The Spread Bar chart displays spread bar values based on a user set parameter for snap shots at certain intervals.

This is a superior method to simply plotting the spread prices. For example, the crack spread 42*HOE-CLE when entered as a... more

Dec 09, 2022

CQG Product Specialist Stan Yabroff designed a CQG page for customers to track and analyze a market’s implied volatility and historical volatility. This post details the features and functionality of the CQG page.

The benefit of this CQG... more

Aug 31, 2022

Let's say you want to look at a study on a chart but you want the study to use a different time frame than the time frame for the bars. For example, the MACD Study on a 1-minute chart using 5-minutes for the MACD study as shown below (you can... more

Jul 05, 2022

After renewing the Super template in July 2022 I also created a set of trading systems based on very commonly used indicators. The exits are summarized at the end.

1. AMA trading system S22AMA

The AMA trading system is... more

Jul 01, 2022

It has been a while since I introduced the Super Template as a shortcut to build trading system inside CQG. In a nutshell, the Super Template is a trading system ready to run, that has a long and short entry, and many different exits that do not... more

Jun 30, 2022

It has been a while since I introduced the Super Template as a shortcut to build trading system inside CQG. In a nutshell, the Super Template is a trading system ready to run, that has a long and short entry, and many different exits that do not... more

Jun 14, 2022

This post details a custom CQG study for pulling a market’s all time high price and date and the market’s all time low price and date.

The custom study was built by CQG’s Product Specialist Jim Stavros and is available as a downloadable... more