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Page 510 VTBands Parameters Name Default Definition Display On The ability have the mid point visible. Len 22 The lookback period to compute the history of range. StdMult1 1.0 The first bands. StdMult2 2.0 The second bands. StdMult3 3.0 The third bands. Hide Midpoint False Determines whether the midpoint is displayed. Extra Steps 1000 The maximum lookback period for comparing range. A number too high may degrade performance, while a number too low will prevent the study from being displayed. The approximate calculation is Extra Steps = “Number of bars per day” * Len. Price Open Price around which standard deviations are placed. Third-Party Studies
ADX Steps (AdxStep) Philosophy Page 511 This study records the closing value of a bar when the moving average of the Adx crosses up or down. This enables the ability to redefine divergence by allowing flexibility in the established mantras associated with the subject and also qualify the strength of the trend and what the highest timeframe chart is trending. This means that the trader knows what timeframe chart should be dominating there core technical based signals. Therefore Adx Step does three things. Identifies trends, is the basis of qualifying divergence and dictates the timeframe chart to be analyzed. Please see chapter 3 and 4 of the book Trading Time for an expanded philosophy statement. In order to understand and qualify both trend and divergence the studies should be applied two times. The first time records the closing value of the bar and by left clicking a second time and modifying the Value to Record to Base study. The increased flexibility in understanding these points derives from the ability to select what price should be used to qualify. This means if for example the relationship of the close instead of high and lows is used, it reveals the ability to quantify divergence in sideways markets in order to produce and early warning to a break out and new trend. This is referenced as divergence as a continuation. This use of different momentum indicators and variables of them to create divergence enables the trader to define how aggressive or conservative they wish there signals to be. Interpretation The use of Steps can be interpreted for both the use as a divergence and trend qualifier. For divergence, the steps up or down between the value of the bar and the indicator should be going in opposite directions. The aggressiveness of that divergence is the number of consecutive times this occurs. Aggressive is 2 times and conservative 3 times. It is very rare for markets to step in opposite direction 4 times, whatever the timeframe used, market or indicator. The qualifying of divergence is dictated by the direction that the steps are moving in e.g. when the moving average crosses up it is doing it at a higher level than the previous cross up (i.e. the study steps up), but the closing value of the bar on crossover of the moving average is lower than the closing value of the bar on the previous crossover (i.e. the study steps down). This would constitute positive divergence. To indicate a trend qualifier the opposite is true. The steps up or down between the value of the bar and the indicator should be going in the same direction (i.e. both step up or down). This confirms that the indicator is showing more momentum by reaching a larger extreme and that the value within the trend is also continuing to a larger extreme. One of the hardest tasks a trader confronts is how to understand what is the dominant time frame and therefore the one to be referencing. A second problem is the ability to ride a trend through to its conclusion from a short term trade to a long term if the analysis dictates that is what should be done. Steps qualify this process. The dominant timeframe is the highest timeframe chart that shows any step whether on the bar or the indicator that has stepped in the same direction on a consecutive basis on 4 occasions. As trends extend, they must step up timeframes in order to signal that the trend is continuing and maturing. Different asset classes can extend varying timeframes before the trend stalls. Majors on Fx will rarely go more than a half day chart, whereas cross rates can move to daily charts. Mean reverting markets such as Bonds will also rarely extend to historical charts. However, individual stocks and index’s can extend to weeks and even months which means trends that began as a short term trade on Charting and Studies User Guide
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CQG Integrated Client Charting and
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Table of Contents Charting and Stud
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Fibonacci Time Retracement (FiboTR)
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Triple Exponential (Trix) .........
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Charting and Studies in CQG IC Page
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CQG Charts Page 3 CQG provides a nu
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Bars The bar display changes depend
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Scroll buttons These buttons allow
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Using Charts in Training Mode Page
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Page 12 Setting Main Preferences On
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Page 14 To change the session type
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Page 18 Setting Miscellaneous Prefe
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Page 20 Preference Description Rese
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Page 22 Type Description Selecting
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Page 24 Setting Bond Continuation P
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Page 26 Setting CID Preferences CID
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Page 30 Set Time Shading Select the
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Page 32 If you want to change the r
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Page 34 Setting Labels and Values P
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Page 36 Study Titles Study titles a
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Page 38 Display the Order Book The
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Page 40 Common Parameters Some char
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Chart Types Page 43 CQG offers over
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Bar Parameters • Color • MarkIt
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Page 47 In the FX market, the Aband
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Page 49 A constant volume chart may
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Constant Volume Bars Parameters •
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Equalize Sessions Parameters • Co
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Line (Line) Page 55 Connects succes
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Market Profile (MP) Page 57 Market
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TPO Time TPO US CST Time K 1300 k 1
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Markers and Indicators Page 61 Init
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Page 63 Right-click the volume, and
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Market Profile Toolbar The Market P
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Changing the Price Scale Page 67 CQ
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Changing TPO Distribution Profiles
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To display distributions by session
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No Gap Parameters • Display • R
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Percent Bar Parameters • Color
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No Xs or Os are displayed if prices
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Page 81 • One Step Back: Tells th
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Spread Bar (SprdBar) Spread bar ret
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TFlow (TFlow) Page 85 TFlow offers
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TFlow Outputs Page 87 The cursor va
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Time-Based TFlow Outputs Page 89 Th
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Tick (Tick) Tick charts display eac
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Tick Chart Smoothing (TCS) Page 93
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Tick Chart Smoothing Outputs • Op
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Yield Parameters • Color • Mark
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Simple Bond Page 99 The concept of
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Moosmuller Page 101 The Moosmuller
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Working with Charts Page 103 Entry
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Shortcut Opens symbol,M monthly cha
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Embedded Errors Chart-specific resp
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Changing the Chart Type, Interval,
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To change the symbol Type a symbol
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To share grids between charts Page
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To use logarithmic or linear scale
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Time Scale Click and drag the price
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To set default spacing 1. Move the
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To use global cursors Page 121 This
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To set Price X Line alerts 1. Add a
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Page 125 Note that if the contracts
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Page 127 Charting and Studies User
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1. Click the Setup button. 2. Click
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Trading on a Chart Page 131 CQG off
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Order Book The Order Book displays
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Trading on a Chart with SnapTrader
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To place a market order Click or to
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To return to current best bid and a
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Trading on a Chart with Studies Pag
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Forward and Yield Curves Page 143 T
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Opening the Forward Curve or Yield
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The Curve Toolbar The toolbar for f
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To move across the instruments 1. C
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To change instrument 1. Right-click
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Working with Portfolios Page 153 Th
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Working with Curves Page 155 You ca
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Setting Forward and Yield Curve Pre
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Pointer Tools Page 159 Many pointer
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Parameters $1:1 = entry point of fi
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Parameters CF1:1 = the center point
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Eraser (Eras) What it does: Deletes
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Parameters FC1:FC1 = circle of orig
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Parameters Page 169 • FE1 Value:
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Parameters Page 171 • Value: Sele
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Parameters • Date: Defines the da
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Parameters • Color • Weight •
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How to use it: Parameters 1. Select
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Linear Regression (LinR) What it do
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Parameters • Display Page 181 •
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Parameters Page 183 • PFork 1 Val
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Profile Area What it does: Page 185
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• Calculate On: Select Price or V
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Speed Lines (SpdLin) What it does:
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Text (Text) What it does: Page 191
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Parameters Txt1: text = the text as
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To display the angle of the trend l
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Add a trend line to another pointer
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Parameters • Value: Allows the us
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Zoom (Zoom) What it does: Page 201
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Undo Zoom (UnZm) What it does: Page
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To remove Pointer Tools Page 205 Th
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To adjust pointer tools Page 207 1.
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Basic Studies Page 209 CQG offers a
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Accumulative Swing Index (ASI) Page
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Adaptive Moving Average (AMA) Page
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Aroon Oscillator (AroonOSC) Page 21
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Aroon Oscillator Parameters • Dis
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Average True Range (ATR) Page 219 T
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BarXData Parameters • Color • M
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Bollinger Band Parameters • Displ
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Bollinger Band Difference Parameter
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Harami Bearish (HI) Harami Bullish
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Engulfing Bullish Page 231 The Engu
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Morning Star Page 233 The Morning S
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Candlestick Formation Parameters
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Channel Parameters Set parameters f
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To overlay charts Page 239 Overlayi
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Other Chart Overlay Actions • To
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Commodity Channel Index (CCI) Page
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Congestion Count (ConCnt) Page 245
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Delta Contours (Delta) All options
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• Params Model: Choose model. Opt
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Directional Movement Index Paramete
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DMI Difference Parameters • Displ
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• Display: Page 257 Peak Sync: Wh
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Envelope Parameters • Display Pag
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Data file format The ASCII file mus
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Fancy On Balance Volume (FOBV) Page
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Fancy On Balance Volume Parameters
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Fast Stochastics Parameters • Dis
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Implied Volatility (ImpVol) Page 27
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Symbol MinDE MaxDE ODR SR MinTicks
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Symbol MinDE MaxDE ODR SR MinTicks
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Keltner Channel Parameters • Disp
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Details of MPVA Calculation Page 28
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Market Profile Value Areas Paramete
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Missing Bar Count (MBCnt) This stud
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Momentum (Mom) Page 287 The Momentu
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The formula for calculating the ESM
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Moving Average Convergence/Divergen
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Moving Average Convergence Divergen
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Moving Average Cross Parameters •
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Moving Linear Regression R Squared
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On Balance Volume (OBV) Page 303 On
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Open Interest (OI) Page 305 The Ope
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Rank Parameters • Display • Mar
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Relative Strength Index (RSI) Page
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Reversal (Rev) Page 323 Measures th
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Slow Stochastics (SStoch) Page 325
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Tick Volume (TckVol) Page 327 Tick
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TFlow External Data (TFXData) Page
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Volatility Stop (VolStp) Page 335 T
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Volatility System (VolSys) Page 337
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Volume (Vol) This study displays ac
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Volume Calculation Trade volume is
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Volume Profile (VP) Page 343 The Vo
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Volume and Open Interest (VolOI) Pa
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Volume and Open Interest Parameters
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ZigZag (ZZ) Page 349 The ZigZag stu
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Pre-Trade Studies DOMActivity (DmAc
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Order Display (OrderDis) The Order
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Order Display Parameters Parameters
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Position Parameters • Display •
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Profit & Loss Parameters • Displa
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Page 370 Adding Study Buttons to th
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Page 382 Adding Conditions to a Cha
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Page 390 Opening the Instrument Mon
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Page 392 Instrument Monitor Compone
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Page 394 Chart types The right pane
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Page 398 Watch List The watch list
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Page 402 Price values Choose whethe
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Page 404 Setting Trading Display Pr
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Page 406 Setting Portfolio Monitor
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Page 410 Setting Histogram Paramete
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Page 420 Working with Chart Columns
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Page 422 To cut, copy, and paste 1.
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Page 424 Working with Chart and Stu
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Third-Party Studies CQG offers many
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Display Parameter Display parameter
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OB/OS Parameter These parameters ap
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Page 450 Add on Alert (atmAoA) AoA
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Page 452 Direction Speed Indicator
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Page 454 First Alert (atmFA) The Fi
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Page 479 and 480: DiNapoli Studies Page 471 The DiNap
Page 481 and 482: Retracement (DNRetr) Page 473 DiNap
Page 483 and 484: Expansion (DNExp) CQG calculates an
Page 485 and 486: Profitunity Studies Page 477 Since
Page 487 and 488: Awesome Oscillator (AweO) Page 479
Page 489 and 490: BW All Studies (BWAll) Applies all
Page 491 and 492: BW AO (BWAO) Page 483 Investors can
Page 493 and 494: BW Zone Trade (BWZT) Page 485 The Z
Page 495 and 496: Blue Light (BluLite) The Blue Light
Page 497 and 498: Super Awesome Oscillator (SuperAO)
Page 499 and 500: Shaun Downey Studies Page 491 Benef
Page 501 and 502: HiLoCnt Parameters Name Default Def
Page 503 and 504: Interpretation Page 495 The thresho
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Page 517: Philosophy Page 509 Volatility Time
Page 521 and 522: CCI Steps (CciStep) Philosophy Page
Page 523 and 524: CciStep Parameters Name Default Def
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Page 537 and 538: Trix Steps (TrxStep) Philosophy Pag
Page 539 and 540: Divergence Studies Page 531 Shaun D
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Page 543 and 544: CciDiv Parameters Name Default Defi
Page 545 and 546: DmiDiv Parameters Name Default Defi
Page 547 and 548: HvlDiv Parameters Name Default Defi
Page 549 and 550: MacdDiv Parameters Name Default Def
Page 551 and 552: MmDiv Parameters Name Default Defin
Page 553 and 554: RcDiv Parameters Name Default Defin
Page 555 and 556: Interpretation Page 547 Each moment
Page 557 and 558: Stochastic Divergence (StDiv) Philo
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Page 561 and 562: TrxDiv Parameters Name Default Defi
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Trend Change Identification Methods
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Cluster: A Stop Loss Tool (SMRCtr)
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Line Study (SMRLin) The SMR Line St
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Timing Oscillator A (SMRTOA) "A" Bu
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"D-1" Buy Signal Page 583 • The c
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Trading the SMR Oscillator Checklis
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Are Your Stops Being Hit Too Often?
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Page 604 Permission Screen (KPrmSc)
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Page 610 Danger Signals and Related
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Supplemental Studies This category
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Tom Joseph Studies These studies in
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Page 617 For further information on
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Pivot (TJPvt) Page 619 There are tw
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Trend Index (TJTI) Page 621 The Tom
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