Thom Hartle

This midweek snapshot shows a predominantly negative performance for the Equity Index futures markets. The best performer in the Japanese market is the TOPIX, Jun 24 with a -0.58% loss. The… more

This post offers two topics: An introduction to the website FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and CQG's XData functionality, which is the… 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

This midweek snapshot shows a negative performance for most of the Equity Index futures markets. The best performer in the Japanese market is the JPX Prime 150 Index, Jun 24 with a -0.29%… more

Pie charts are a popular visual presentation used by analysts for detailing a percentage of a whole, with a circle representing the whole and slices representing the categories that make up the… more

This midweek snapshot shows a positive performance for the Equity futures markets. The best performer in the Japanese market is the Nikkei 225 (Osaka), Jun 24 with a +1.23% gain following… more

This post presents "how to" rank and sort market data using Excel's SORTBY, CHOOSECOLS, and TAKE functions. This method is a replacement for applying RANK and VLOOKUP functions for ranking and… more

This midweek snapshot shows a mixed performance for the Equity futures markets. The best performer in the Japanese market is the Nikkei 225 with a +0.60% gain following last week’s +0.77%… 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

Excel's SWITCH function is similar to Excel's IF and IFS functions and is the topic of this post. First, a review of the IF and IFS functions.

Users of Microsoft Excel may utilize the IF… more