Excel

Microsoft® Excel offers the Radar Chart. This chart does not use the typical X-axis versus Y-axis. Instead, the radar chart is a graphic display of multivariate data in the form of a two-dimensional chart.

Viewing the radar chart shows... more

Sparklines have been available beginning with Microsoft® Excel 2010. A Sparkline is a simple chart that is displayed within a cell or a group of merged cells. Sparklines are a nice addition to a quote display as the quote display shows current... more

In this article, we outline how to pull historical market data into Excel while excluding data from days when the market was in a holiday session.

Holiday sessions are trading dates, but not clearing dates. Holiday session data is... more

A common request is an RTD formula to pull historical settlement prices for a particular market. There is a “Contract Data” RTD formula for settlement:

=RTD("CQG.RTD", ,"ContractData", "CLE", "Settlement",, "T")

However, “Contract... more

Pull historical spread data into Microsoft Excel® using RTD formulas with this sample spreadsheet. It not only pulls open, high, low, and close values into Excel, but also a study, the simple moving average of the spread.

This Microsoft Excel® dashboard offers four charts displaying seventy-five open, high, low, and close bars of a spread. The spread symbols are entered into Excel on the symbols tab and the time frame is set for the charts. The RTD formulas... more

Customers using our flagship product, CQG Integrated Client (CQG IC), have access to a new study called Algo Orders. Using a proprietary algorithm, this trading activity indicator detects and exposes hidden volume (iceberg orders) on the market.... more

When pulling a study value into Excel using RTD, you may not see the same value in Excel that you see on a chart. It is important that the RTD formula uses the same parameters as applied to the chart.

For example, in the chart we see the... more

Request: What is the easiest way to get chart and study data from a chart into an Excel spreadsheet?

Solution: Simply right-click the chart area that has the market data and, at the bottom of the menu, click “Export to Excel... more

Request: How can I get the symbols I see in the All Contracts Window into Excel? I cannot select the columns and copy and paste.

Solution: CQG offers an Excel RTD Add-in. There is a 64-bit Excel version and a 32-bit Excel version. Please... more