Studies

Markets move through phases: An uptrend (higher highs preceded by higher lows), a downtrend (lower lows preceded by lower highs) and sideways or consolidation price action.

Technical based… more

CQG IC and QTrader users can chart bid and ask orders activity for stocks during pre-market trading hours and after-market trading hours. This requires a custom session and setting the chart data… more

Excel users with RTD links to both market and study data can design a real-time dashboard that can monitor a portfolio of instruments and the status of various studies. This is the topic of this… more

The Moving Average Convergence/Divergence indicator (MACD) was invented by Gerald Appel over 40 years ago. The study is an unbounded oscillator with two lines: MACD and MACDA.

Tracking and analyzing cash market data is more difficult because most cash market data is a single print for the day of the report, that is there is no open, high, low or close, just the close.… more

CQG IC and QTrader offer the ability to set recalculation rates for studies. In addition, RTD study formulas have a recalculation rate parameter.

In CQG select a chart and then Setup/Chart… more

The pivot point is the arithmetic average of the high (H), low (L), and closing (C) prices of the active instrument, Pivot Point = (H+L+C)/3 or Pivot Point = HLC3. The study applied to a chart… more

CQG offers institutional pricing data across 430+ currency pairs of market data. Sourced directly from tier-1 banks and non-bank market makers worldwide, the feed provides up to 50 years of… more

This post details how to extract data from a large array, such as a correlation matrix, to make your workflow more efficient.

First, as the LAMBDA function is used, a brief overview is… more

The CQG Rank Study ranks the individual chart points of a market over a specified number of previous trading periods. For example, if the current bar's close had a rank of 3, and the periods were… more