XLS Trader provides traders a framework for building live automated trading strategies in new or existing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Anyone who is comfortable writing formulas in Excel already knows how to interact with this product and can begin creating a strategy by simply selecting a blank cell and typing “=TradeSystem().”
You can download the add-in, learn high-level details and download a sample before continuing with the Help file by going here.
XLS Trader is a collection of over 70 Excel functions (UDFs) that enables you to specify complete trading strategies from any information you store or calculate in spreadsheets. Behind the scenes, Excel is connected to over 45 exchanges around the world via the CQG Gateway.
CQG’s XLS Trader functionality significantly broadens your ability to develop trading models that can execute directly from Excel.
Here is an overview image of all of the functions: