CQG's trade platform

yshterk · Aug 16, 2005

Quote from electron:

Does your CQG Trader allow for trading with OCA orders (brackets) ?

Not at this time. We plan to add support for them in the future release.

sputdr · Aug 17, 2005

Quote from yshterk:

Not at this time. We plan to add support for them in the future release.

Do you plan on lowering your price at all?

bladerunner · Aug 17, 2005

why bother with copycats when you can get the real thing aka x-trader pro??

r-in · Aug 17, 2005

From what I gather for the cost of X-Trader pro you can get CQG execution platform as well as excellent data and charting, maybe even a bit less.

Coffeebean · Aug 17, 2005

I trade on CBOT and Eurex via X-trader and use CQG data for candlesticks. If anyone can give some feedback on the speed/reliability of the CQG trade platform, I would be most grateful, as it would save me about nine billion dollars in TT licensing fees. Success, CB

Truff · Aug 17, 2005

Quote from Coffeebean:

I trade on CBOT and Eurex via X-trader and use CQG data for candlesticks. If anyone can give some feedback on the speed/reliability of the CQG trade platform, I would be most grateful, as it would save me about nine billion dollars in TT licensing fees. Success, CB

data feed is awesome and extremely reliable

frank_s · Aug 18, 2005

I'm also looking for an alternative to X-Trader. Is CQG comparable in speed and stability?

twinx · Sep 30, 2007

Quote from CPTrader:
I am hearing you will have spot FX (via EBS) b year end. Is that true?

Quote from frank_s:
...Is CQG comparable in speed and stability?

... And the API? What about EBS data?

Thank you.

twinx · Sep 30, 2007

I do'nt understand the pricing really

FCMs: * $1,500.00/month. This charge provides for CQG to maintain the order routing infrastructure.
Traders: * CQG Trader: Flat fee of $295.00/month
http://www.cqg.com/Electronic-Trading/Pricing.aspx

To trade over CQG is 1,500 + 295 $ per month?
Order commission I pay to my fcm...

powerfade · Sep 30, 2007

Quote from twinx:

I do'nt understand the pricing really

FCMs: * $1,500.00/month. This charge provides for CQG to maintain the order routing infrastructure.
Traders: * CQG Trader: Flat fee of $295.00/month
http://www.cqg.com/Electronic-Trading/Pricing.aspx

To trade over CQG is 1,500 + 295 $ per month?
Order commission I pay to my fcm...

I tried out the CQG Trader front end. This is just the execution side without the charting. The costs are negligible - nowhere near $250/month.

The data is extremely good. However, the front end does not provide hotkey or 'macro' functionality. For this reason it is not optimal for intraday trading, IMO.