Cboe Europe Derivatives (CEDX) is a European derivatives marketplace which enables participants to access equity derivatives markets for quotes and trade execution.
CEDX offers a range of futures and options contracts based on Cboe Europe single country indices. Here is a list… 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 Preference/Recalc.
The default is to recalculate studies on every tick.
Choices… more
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 change of monthly bars for the last twelve months.
In addition, the data has… 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 "Label" data the "@" sign is seen if you are running Excel 365 or higher.
As shown below,… 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 gradient colors between the two.
The image below has columns for % Net Change Daily, % Net Change… 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 highlights using color the best and worst perfuming top 20 stocks by weighing in the Nasdaq 100 index… more
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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 ability to import external data into CQG for charting and analysis.
FRED
FRED, 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 displays five curves:
The pivot points.Two projected highs.Two projected lows.Note that the… 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 whole.
This post details creating pie charts in Excel using as the first example the weekly CFTC… more