CQG
CQG is one of the industry’s highest-performing solution for integrated trade routing, global market data, and advanced technical analysis tools. CQG provides Direct Market Access to more than forty-five exchanges through its worldwide network of co-located CQG Hosted Exchange Gateways. CQG’s market data feed consolidates data from over seventy-five sources.
Unrivaled Graphics and Analytics
Get a clearer picture of the markets. CQG offers traders a large number of chart types, all offering easy-to-use features. More than one hundred studies as well as statistical functions are available to provide sophisticated mathematical analysis.
Trade Execution Made Easy
CQG’s goal is to enable customers to efficiently trade the markets through its products. The trading applications offer features specific to the professional trader’s needs.
Portfolio and Instrument Monitors
The Portfolio Monitor offers both trade routing tools with an expandable depth-of-market view of the exchange order book and chart studies and conditions using different chart types and time intervals in a single view. Tab displays allow you to easily move between asset classes. The Instrument Monitor details chart and study values by symbols using a tabbed view
Sophisticated Trade System Development Tools
Test your ideas before you trade on them. Our trade system package allows customers to analyze past trading activity and then design and test strategies. Modules for testing trading ideas include Entry Signal Evaluator, Trade System, and Trade System Optimizer. Automated execution is available through CQG AutoTrader
Expert-Level Options Analysis
Experienced traders know that to make the most of the options markets, you need sophisticated options analytics to gain an edge. We place powerful analytical modules at your fingertips for that very purpose. You can now also trade UDS options strategies.
Market Data Global connectivity
Access exchanges around the world for market data and trading. CQG global market data is fast, accurate, and reliable. CQG high-speed, consolidated market data feeds deliver real-time and historical data from over seventy-five global sources.
CQG APIs Capitalize on CQG’s strengths
The CQG Data API makes it possible to seamlessly deliver CQG’s market data and analytics to external applications. The CQG Trading API grants access to the CQG Hosted Exchange Gateways for order routing from external applications. The Charting API allows third parties to publish their custom analytics in CQG as studies, indicators, conditions, or formulas to be used and displayed on various CQG interfaces.
Spread Trading Server-side spreading and aggregation
Create, trade, and manage multi-legged, intermarket, and intramarket spreads across accounts and asset classes. CQG aggregation allows you to trade similar instruments on multiple exchanges, thereby increasing the liquidity pool and the chance of being filled at the desired price.
CQG QTrader at a Glance
- Industry-leading market data
- State-of-the-art charting and analytics
- Numerous chart styles, including the CQG-exclusive TFlow®
- Portfolio and Instrument Monitors offering the broadest technical view of the markets
- Efficient and easy-to-use order routing tools
- Spreadsheet Trader, which offers the ability to track and trade a wide collection of markets
- All popular order types, including market, limit, stop, stop limit, iceberg, trailing, DOM-triggered, and algorithmic orders
- Orders that will automatically follow the study values on a chart
- Ability to pull real-time market and study values into Excel® using RTD
Why CQG Products and Services?
For more than thirty years, CQG developed new technologies, offering real-time and historical data integrated with graphics and technical analysis tools. CQG’s innovations have become industry standards.
- Integrated market data, analytics, and trade routing
- Multi-asset consolidated market data feed from more than seventy-five sources
- Direct Market Access to more than forty exchanges through a global network of co-located Hosted Exchange Gateways
- Server-side spreading and aggregation
- Full line of easy-to-use software front ends
- Robust APIs
CQG Desktop is the next generation of trading and data visualization from the original data and analytics expert you’ve trusted for more than 35 years. CQG Desktop offers trading, market data, charting, and analytics all in one easy-to-use product that can be customized to meet your trading needs.
The new web-based technology doesn’t require any software to download so it’s easier than ever to access the markets with CQG. Popular features from other CQG products have been built into CQG Desktop, making it an easy switch from CQG Trader for customers looking to take advantage of charts and better graphics, including heat maps, account monitors, and more.
Key Features
- Charts and analytics
- Hybrid Order Ticket (HOT)
- Quote boards, Quote SpreadSheet, heatmaps
- Orders and Positions
- RSS news
Why CQG Desktop?
- CQG's robust cloud infrastructure has been the industry standard for data quality in the futures industry since 1984.
- CQG Desktop works on virtually any platform and uses the latest technologies to bring a robust experience: HTML5, protobuf, and websocket.
- CQG Desktop's feature set is focused on the functionality that traders really need.
- Global market data coverage and trade execution is delivered via CQG's infrastructure.
CQG Mobile is CQG anytime, anywhere.
CQG for iOS and CQG for Android give you on-the-go access to quotes, analytics, and trading. CQG is always with you and easier to use than ever.
Built on CQG’s robust cloud infrastructure, CQG Mobile has the data quality, coverage, and reliability that global traders have come to expect.
Customers using CQG Integrated Client, CQG QTrader, or CQG Desktop can sign-up for mobile access with their CQG Trading ID and the mobile app will reflect accurate account information, including trading access.
Key Features
- Fast login with TouchID/FaceID
- Push notifications
- Real-time quotes, charts & analytics
- Easy-to-use trading and order management
- Server-side bracket orders
Solutions for customers needing the most reliable data, advanced analytics, and ultra-low-latency trading
CQG Charting API
The Charting API allows third parties to publish their custom analytics in CQG as studies, indicators, conditions, or formulas to be used and displayed on various CQG interfaces such as charts, quote boards, and trading interfaces. With the Charting API, customers can build custom analytic tools as their own libraries (DLL). These tools can be prepared using numerous technologies. They can implement complex logic and they can use external data with real-time updates while being fully integrated in CQG IC interfaces. In addition, the API provides access to the graphic interface, allowing customers to create advanced visual representations on a chart. Analytics developed with the Charting API can be used by customers for their individual use or for redistribution to other CQG customers.
CQG Data API
The CQG Data API makes it possible to seamlessly deliver CQG’s market data and analytics to external applications. CQG offers the option of both real-time and historical data via our APIs. The CQG Data API is based on Microsoft COM server technology. Any language that supports COM automation technology may be used for development. CQG provides samples of how to use the API for Microsoft Excel® VBA, Visual Basic, C#, and C++.
Real-Time Data
The CQG Data API gives you access to:
- Instrument reference metadata/contract specifications
- Last trade and current best bid/offer data with volumes
- Depth-of-market (DOM) data with volumes
Historical Data
Comprehensive trade and best bid/offer tick data may be retrieved at the end of the day to validate tick database integrity. In addition, the CQG Data API gives you access to consolidated (aggregated) data in different types of bar configurations, such as regular timed, constant volume, point and figure, and TFlow® bars. Our historical data includes access to our embedded analytics.
Analytics
Industry-leading analytics available via the CQG Data API include:
- Classic studies and functions
- Custom studies and formulas
- Synthetic instruments
- Trade system values
Product Advantages
- Utilize real-time and historical data as well as analytics.
- Expose real-time and historical data to your applications.
- Access reliable, accurate data from over one hundred sources.
- Use the CQG API for Microsoft Excel modeling.
- Connect to multiple asset classes.
- Experience speed — the CQG API introduces only one millisecond for data round trip.
- Perform backtesting.
- Collect data, including DOM data.
- Take advantage of low start-up costs.
- Download free API templates and samples.
CQG Trading API
The CQG Trading API grants access to the CQG Hosted Exchange Gateways for order routing from external applications.
Features
- Manual and automatic trade execution
- Trade monitoring
- User-Defined Strategies (UDS) support
Customer-Driven Solutions
CQG’s APIs are for customers interested in enhancing their own trusted set of trading tools with CQG’s data feed and order routing services.
See how your tools become even more effective:
- CQG API solutions allow you to seamlessly deliver market data, analytics, and order routing to external applications.
- Third-party software application providers can feed market data into front-end applications through the API or build websites with real-time and delayed market data.
- FCMs can use the CQG APIs to provide market data to middle- and back-office systems.
- Hedge funds and CTAs can perform manual and auto trading as well as implement analytical support.
- CQG developers have created a series of API templates, which are provided free of charge. The templates include: Energy Trading Template, Risk Console Template, Bracket Order Template, and Order Ticket Template.
Product Advantages
- Trade on more than forty exchanges across multiple asset classes using one interface.
- Trade across multiple accounts (not limited to one account or one broker).
- Execute your algorithmic trading.
- Connect to the CQG Hosted Exchange Gateways for Direct Market Access and ultra-low-latency trade routing.
- Take advantage of the proximity of the CQG Hosted Exchange Gateways to the exchanges. Local exchange access means faster execution.
- Use the CQG Hosted Exchange Gateways, which include full-site redundancy, for more dependability and better load balancing for lower latency.
- Download free API templates and samples.
- Reduce your overhead.
