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This post details the downloadable Excel Market Performance Dashboard's features and functions. The dashboard has seven tabs (the first is data and the other tabs display a chart and a table of… more

Various Exchanges offer market data detailing the current state of a market. This includes the CME Group, the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), and others.

For… more

This post details the different techniques for pulling Depth-of-Market (DOM) data into Excel.

There are three ways:

October 14, 2024, the Cboe launched weekly options on the Cboe VIX futures. To find the symbols in IC or QTrader, open the Symbol Search, select Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE), sort the Asset column… more

In the March 2025 issue of Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES magazine John Ehlers, President of MESA Software, presented "A New Solution, Removing Moving Average Lag."

The… more

The PriceToDollar function converts the prices of the particular market to their value. For example, below the E-mini S&P 500 futures contract's last price is 6003.75. And 6003.75 multiplied… more

Two recent posts CQG Primer: The Level Function and Level Function Using Excel RTD Formulas detailed using the Level function available in CQG IC and QTrader. The Level function plots two lines,… more

This post covers two topics: Details using the Chart Analog Overlay Study and the Percent Bar chart type.

Traders use the analog study to compare how markets are trading relative to each… more

This post "CQG Primer: The Level Function" introduced the Level Function. The Level Function plots two lines, which identify the highest and lowest levels attained over a defined period. The… more

Strategy builder was added in Version 9.9 and replaces Spread Builder.

Strategy Builder

This video by… more