Thom Hartle

Excel 365 offers the LARGE and XLOOKUP functions. This post details using both for tracking market performance.

The image below is a table from Excel where the data presented are percent net… more

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

The RTD function displayed in the title of the post includes the "@" sign. If you use the CQG RTD Toolkit installed on the Excel Ribbon when either CQG IC or QTrader are installed to pull in "… more

Heat mapping is a data visualization technique that highlights market performance using colors. Typically, bright green for the top performers and bright red for the weakest performers and… more

This midweek snapshot shows a predominantly positive performance for the Equity Index futures markets. The best performer in the Japanese market is the Nikkei 225 (Osaka), Jun 24 contract… more

This post introduces using Excel's Quick Analysis Tool. First, a walkthrough of a typical application of one of Excel's data visualization features (heatmapping). In the image below heatmapping… more

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