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Thom Hartle
Jul 06, 2021
Updated: Jul 06, 2021

Microsoft® Excel 2016 and higher offers the Waterfall Chart. The Waterfall Chart is also known as a bridge chart or a cascade chart. Typically, this kind of chart is used to see how positive or negative values in a data series contribute to the... more

Thom Hartle
Jun 28, 2021
Updated: Mar 14, 2023

CQG comes with 74 functions such as Absolute Value (Abs), Accumulation (Accum), and Bars Since (BarsSince) to name a few. Functions are found in the Formula Toolbox for creating custom studies.

Here is a link to the CQG Help file... more

Thom Hartle
Jun 25, 2021
Updated: Sep 22, 2022

The Supplemental report is published for Futures-and-Options-Combined in selected agricultural markets and, in addition to showing all the information in the short format, shows positions of Index Traders.

To find the CIT symbols... more

Thom Hartle
Jun 14, 2021
Updated: Mar 14, 2023

John Ehlers’, President of MESA Software (mesasoftware.com), goal is to bring the science of engineering and Digital Signal Processing to the art of trading. One such endeavor is his publishing of the Fisher Transform as a technical study for... more

Thom Hartle
Jun 07, 2021
Updated: Jun 14, 2021

Microsoft® Excel 2016 and higher offer a new chart type: The Treemap. A treemap chart provides a hierarchical view of your data. This view makes it easy to spot patterns, such as which markets are outperforming or underperforming in a group of... more

Thom Hartle
Jun 03, 2021
Updated: Jun 14, 2021

This article builds upon the post titled “Evaluate ETF Constituents Performance Using Excel” that detailed gauging the current price of a stock relative to the high as an indication of relative weakness and a table was included that demonstrated... more

Thom Hartle
May 21, 2021
Updated: Sep 22, 2022

Fixed income traders may want to see fixed income futures prices for the book using a price format other than decimals or native. This article details the steps to converting decimal formatting to Solidus formatting (132.5078125 converted to 132-... more

Thom Hartle
May 10, 2021
Updated: Jun 14, 2021

If you track the performance of ETFs you may be interested in evaluating the performance of the stocks that are held by the ETF, such as the Invesco QQQ ETF, which tracks the Nasdaq-100 Index. Two downloadable samples are provided at the bottom... more

Thom Hartle
May 06, 2021
Updated: Sep 22, 2022

SPDR® Sector ETFs Analysis Dashboard This Microsoft® Excel dashboard provides analysis of S&P Sectors based on ETFs. The collection of ETFs are:

Symbol Description XLC Communication Services Select Sector XLY Consumer... more
Thom Hartle
Apr 26, 2021
Updated: Jun 14, 2021

Microsoft® Excel offers the Radar Chart. This chart does not use the typical X-axis versus Y-axis. Instead, the radar chart is a graphic display of multivariate data in the form of a two-dimensional chart.

Viewing the radar chart shows... more