When using RTD functions in Excel to pull in market prices you have to manually format the prices. Excel does not know that the E-mini S&P 500 price has two decimals places (i.e. 3909.25) and… more
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In July 2022 CQG Product Specialist Helmut Mueller updated his Super Template, which is a sample trading system ready to run that has a long and short entry, and many programmed different exits.… more
It has been a while since I introduced the Super Template as a shortcut to build trading system inside CQG. In a nutshell, the Super Template is a trading system ready to run, that has a long and… more
The CQG Data Quality team has added the US Weekly Retail Gasoline and Diesel Prices including the PADD1 to PADD 5 numbers published by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). There are a… more
This post details a custom CQG study for pulling a market’s all time high price and date and the market’s all time low price and date.
The custom study was built by CQG’s Product Specialist… more
The CQG RTD Toolkit is an Excel Add-in installed with CQG IC and QTrader. This post details how to pull contract information: specifically the First Notice Date and the Expiration Date for a list… more
The CQG Data Quality Team has added the USDA Daily Ethanol Report found under USDA in the CQG Symbol Finder. Thirty-four new symbols are available. At the bottom of the post is a CQG PAC that… more
The CQG Data Quality Team has added over 1,000 USDA Cattle Market reports. The symbols are found under the USDA-WASDE group in the CQG Symbol Finder when searching for Cattle.
In… more
The Excel AGGREGATE function returns an aggregate calculation such as AVERAGE, COUNT, COUNTA, MAX, MIN, PRODUCT, etc., applied to a list of data while optionally ignoring hidden rows and errors.… more
Monitoring market data in Excel may be enhanced by including Forward Curve charts. However, there are issues with Excel charting and the purpose of this post is to offer solutions using Excel… more