CQG
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CQG is a privately held company
creating financial software solutions for market technical analysis
, charting, and electronic trading. CQG specializes mostly in the futures
market but provides both real-time and historical data from more than 100 exchanges
from North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia, including CBOE Futures Exchange (http:cfe.cboe.com) CME
, CBOT
, NYSE
, NYMEX
, LIFFE
, LSE
, London Metal Exchange
, SGX
, SFE, Euronext
, ICE
(ex IPE
, NYBOT
, Winnipeg
), Osaka Securities Exchange
, Tokyo Commodity Exchange
, Tokyo Stock Exchange
, as well as financial news from several providers.
Currently, CQG provides two products: CQG Integrated Client, which supports all functionality that CQG offers and CQG Trader, which mostly offers electronic trading
. CQG also provides an API which enables exporting of real-time and historical market data to third party application for analysis and order
execution.
Privately held company
A privately held company or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the...
creating financial software solutions for market technical analysis
Technical analysis
In finance, technical analysis is security analysis discipline for forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. Behavioral economics and quantitative analysis incorporate technical analysis, which being an aspect of active management stands...
, charting, and electronic trading. CQG specializes mostly in the futures
Futures contract
In finance, a futures contract is a standardized contract between two parties to exchange a specified asset of standardized quantity and quality for a price agreed today with delivery occurring at a specified future date, the delivery date. The contracts are traded on a futures exchange...
market but provides both real-time and historical data from more than 100 exchanges
Exchange (organized market)
An exchange is a highly organized market where tradable securities, commodities, foreign exchange, futures, and options contracts are sold and bought.-Description:...
from North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia, including CBOE Futures Exchange (http:cfe.cboe.com) CME
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is an American financial and commodity derivative exchange based in Chicago. The CME was founded in 1898 as the Chicago Butter and Egg Board. Originally, the exchange was a non-profit organization...
, CBOT
Chicago Board of Trade
The Chicago Board of Trade , established in 1848, is the world's oldest futures and options exchange. More than 50 different options and futures contracts are traded by over 3,600 CBOT members through open outcry and eTrading. Volumes at the exchange in 2003 were a record breaking 454 million...
, NYSE
New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at 13.39 trillion as of Dec 2010...
, NYMEX
New York Mercantile Exchange
The New York Mercantile Exchange is the world's largest physical commodity futures exchange. It is located at One North End Avenue in the World Financial Center in the Battery Park City section of Manhattan, New York City...
, LIFFE
London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange
The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange is a futures exchange based in London. LIFFE is now part of NYSE Euronext following its takeover by Euronext in January 2002 and Euronext's merger with New York Stock Exchange in April 2007.-History:The London International Financial...
, LSE
London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...
, London Metal Exchange
London Metal Exchange
The London Metal Exchange is the futures exchange with the world's largest market in options, and futures contracts on base and other metals. As the LME offers contracts with daily expiry dates of up to three months from trade date, along with longer-dated contracts up to 123 months, it also...
, SGX
Singapore Exchange
Singapore Exchange Limited is an investment holding company located in Singapore and providing different services related to securities and derivatives trading and others. SGX is a member of the World Federation of Exchanges and the Asian and Oceanian Stock Exchanges FederationSingapore Exchange...
, SFE, Euronext
Euronext
Euronext N.V. is a pan-European stock exchange based in Amsterdam and with subsidiaries in Belgium, France, Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom. In addition to equities and derivatives markets, the Euronext group provides clearing and information services...
, ICE
IntercontinentalExchange
IntercontinentalExchange, Inc., known as ICE, is an American financial company that operates Internet-based marketplaces which trade futures and over-the-counter energy and commodity contracts as well as derivative financial products...
(ex IPE
International Petroleum Exchange
The International Petroleum Exchange, based in London, was one of the world's largest energy futures and options exchanges. Its flagship commodity, Brent Crude was a world benchmark for oil prices, but the exchange also handled futures contracts and options on fuel oil, natural gas, electricity ,...
, NYBOT
New York Board of Trade
The New York Board of Trade , renamed ICE Futures US in September of 2007, is a wholly owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange . It is a physical commodity futures exchange located in New York City. It originated in 1870 as the New York Cotton Exchange...
, Winnipeg
Winnipeg Commodity Exchange
The Winnipeg Commodity Exchange is the former name of a derivatives market based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada now known as ICE Futures Canada. Futures and options contracts are electronically traded in western barley and canola ....
), Osaka Securities Exchange
Osaka Securities Exchange
is the second largest securities exchange in Japan, in terms of amount of business handled. As of 31 December 2007, the Osaka Securities Exchange had 477 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of $212 billion. The Nikkei 225 Futures, introduced at the Osaka Securities Exchange in...
, Tokyo Commodity Exchange
Tokyo Commodity Exchange
The Tokyo Commodity Exchange is a non-profit organization, and regulates trading of futures contracts and option products of all commodities in Japan...
, Tokyo Stock Exchange
Tokyo Stock Exchange
The , called or TSE for short, is located in Tokyo, Japan and is the third largest stock exchange in the world by aggregate market capitalization of its listed companies...
, as well as financial news from several providers.
Currently, CQG provides two products: CQG Integrated Client, which supports all functionality that CQG offers and CQG Trader, which mostly offers electronic trading
Electronic trading
Electronic trading, sometimes called etrading, is a method of trading securities , foreign exchange or financial derivatives electronically...
. CQG also provides an API which enables exporting of real-time and historical market data to third party application for analysis and order
Order (exchange)
An order in a market such as a stock market, bond market, commodity market or financial derivative market is an instruction from customers to brokers to buy or sell on the exchange.These instructions can be simple or complicated...
execution.