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Trading Studies

This set of studies provides the Order Display study (indications on a chart for filled and working orders), open trade equity, current position, and profit and loss account… more

This macro-enabled Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet tracks the holdings of the Health Care Select Sector SPDR® (XLY). The ETF is based on the Health Care Select Sector Index.

There are 60 stocks… more

The Sharpe ratio measures the performance of an investment such as a security or portfolio compared to a risk-free asset, after adjusting for its risk. It is the difference between the returns of… more

This function is available in the Add Study window and in the Formula Toolbox.

The function measures the strength and direction of the price movement of two symbols over a defined number of… more

This macro-enabled Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet tracks the holdings of the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX). The ETF tracks the investment results of an index composed of listed US equities in the… more

This post details bringing in the Pivot Points study values from IC or QTrader into Excel.

The pivot point is the arithmetic average of the high (H), low (L), and closing (C) prices of the… more

The Excel VSTACK function appends arrays vertically and in sequence to return a larger array.

Syntax:

=VSTACK(array1,[array2],...)

As an example, the post "Market Performance Dashboard… more

One important step when building Excel market dashboards is managing screen real estate. For example, in a recent post "CQG CME Markets Dashboards" a section displayed Corn 1-month Calendar… more

This post walks the reader through building option chains in Excel. The CQG RTD Toolkit offers this functionality, however, the same feature can be implemented using Excel's CONCATENATE function.… more

This post provides a guideline to reviewing the outcomes of a pattern recognition approach to the markets.

Two recent posts on Workspaces discussed CQG's Candlestick Formations Study.

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