About CQG

CQG creates innovative technology solutions for financial markets


Our mission is to create innovative solutions for the financial trading industry. Over the past 40 years, we've developed new technologies, offering real-time and historical data integrated with graphics and technical analysis tools. CQG's innovations have become industry standards.

CQG is the industry’s highest-performing solution for integrated trade routing, global market data, and advanced technical analysis tools. CQG partners with more than one hundred Futures Commission Merchant environments and provides Direct Market Access to more than forty-five exchanges through its worldwide network of co-located CQG Hosted Exchange Gateways. CQG’s market data feed consolidates data from over seventy-five sources.

CQG began serving United States traders in 1980, expanding to Europe in 1988 and to Asia in 1998. In 2010, CQG launched Continuum, a new division for API Enterprise Solutions. CQG now leads the industry in providing reliable data, superior decision-making tools, and order execution software with customer support that understands the trader.

CQG is headquartered in Colorado. We have sales and customer support offices in Chicago, New York, Denver, Glenwood Springs, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore, Shanghai, Moscow, and Kiev. CQG provides market data and ISV services in more than sixty countries.