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A couple of points of clarification are necessary because people are talking about two different CQG products. First, CQGTrader is an order routing product offering two different depth-of-market order routing interfaces, a quote board, and orders and positions management widows. That’s it...

I have researched intraday volatility in the E-mini S&P 500. I wrote up an article that was published in August 2003 in Active Trader magazine. It was called “What’s the time”. I reviewed 10-minute bars for the first quarter of 2003. The research showed what most experienced traders know...

One of the key elements to be aware of when using oscillators, such as the RSI, is the market trend will affect the range of the readings oscillator. In other words, if the market is strong, the RSI will peak at high levels and turn up just under midrange levels. For example, a 14-bar RSI...

I can't seem to upload charts. The NYSE Volume Ratio Chart I just mentioned is posted at my blog, www.hartleandflow.com.

Today, the up-volume compared to the sum of up- and down-volume posted by the NYSE (up/up + down) never dropped below 80-percent up volume and closed out at 94-percent up volume. Think of this as a volume weighted advance decline line. There was a lot of buying today. My chart is an overlay...

atavachron, Thanks for the compliment regarding my blog. This is my own personal blog. I am providing a combination educational and market outlook. My outlooks are based on what I would consider to be classic technical analysis, and the tools that I have settled on. Within the posts are links...

I tried to upload an image, and it did work. Here is a link to an example. Hopefully this works: http://www.hartleandflow.com/photos/photo/404834235/TradeFlow_Chart_and_the_Emini_SP_500.html

I like a black background to better show off colors. I don’t use candlestick charts, I like TradeFlow charts. Black works the best for me to contrast the colors of bars and studies. I have a personal market blog called hartle & flow, www.hartleandflow.com.

I write a personal blog each morning providing three views of gold traded on Globex, Euro FX traded on Globex, NYMEX products traded on Globex, and the Ten-year T-note traded on the e-CBOT, as well as e-mini S&P TradeFlow charts. I post the morning top ten performing ETFs and the percentage of...

One thing to keep in mind when selecting a trading platform is the FCM that you use should have a relationship for pit trading. While it only happened to me once, I was short e-mini S&Ps when Globex went down for the day a few years ago. My FCM did not have a way for me to arbitrage my position...

I have always thought Bollinger Bands are a little tricky because the current band values are calculated based on the current price. If the last price on the bar is up near the high of the bar, then the upper band can be a distance over the bar. But, if the last price retraces within the bar...

For those who might be interested in learning more about CQG's TradeFlow. I have a personal blog I post to each day and I include some TradeFlow charts (www.hartleandflow.com).

One value, I think, of the EMA over the SMA is the EMA calculation compares the closing price to the EMA. Therefore, if the closing price is above the EMA for the first time then the EMA has to turn up. That doesn’t necessarily happen with the SMA. The market can close up, but the SMA can...

A couple of more thoughts seem appropriate. Yes, volatility does change. And, that again, points to the value of performing and maintaining using real-time trades MFE and MAE analysis of your setups. Then you will know the market has evolved, and you, one, won’t start blaming yourself for...

I don’t know if this is against the rules, because I work for this company, but the article is free that you can read at CQG’ web site on Market Scans in CQG. You can create a portfolio and look for instruments that meet certain conditions...

Tom DeMark's trend line work is interesting. He has rules for plotting trend lines including rules to fade a break of a trend line.

There are strategies for building balanced portfolios using ETFs that you can manage yourself. I would read this article: http://www.fundadvice.com/fehtml/bhstrategies/0108/0108a.html And then review the ETF portfolios here: http://www.fundadvice.com/portfolio.html#RYD The home...

What is your definition of an up trend or a down trend or a trading range? I look to the 14-bar RSI. The range of the RSI readings will shift due to the influence of the trend. A market in an up trend will tend to have RSI readings that peak above 62 and tend to turn up from above 38. A market...

Sounds appropriate to me. I still try to scratch trades on the very short-term time frame because I can see the actual execution of trades at the ask price or into the bid price using TradeFlow charts. If I was long, I’ll stay long unless I see a sudden shift by market participants suddenly...