CQG’s global market data is fast, accurate, and reliable. CQG’s high-speed consolidated market data feeds deliver real-time and historical data from over one hundred global sources. Ongoing innovation in data management and transmission technologies enables us to deliver ever-increasing market data volumes. Dedicated teams of specialists in five locations across the globe actively maintain data quality. A data quality group monitors our global data network twenty-four hours a day to make certain our customers get the clean data they need, when they need it.
Continuum, a division of CQG based in Chicago, offers trade execution and data distribution for order execution and market data platforms, applications, and proprietary systems. Continuum leverages CQG, Inc.’s collocated Hosted Exchange Gateways as well as its access to over a hundred sources for global market data and to over forty exchanges for trade routing.
Supported Clearing and Brokerage Firms
Investor/RT supports CQG Continuum market data and execution services for clients from brokerage firms using one of the following FCMs: ADM Investor Services, Advantage Futures, AMP Global Clearing, Dorman Trading, Phillip Capital and Plus500. Supported brokerages include AMP Futures, EdgeClear and more generally any brokerage firm offering a CQG account held by one of the above FCMs (If your FCM is not yet supported, please contact Linn Software to register your interest.)
Investor/RT also supports brokerage firms (such as CannonTrading or Stage5Trading) that offer the new StoneX futures demo and live accounts.
To enable your Investor/RT for use with CQG Continuum, a 15 $/month platform technology fee (waived for Investor/RT trial users) is required. Add the "CQG Market Access" option to your license subscription and then review and sign the CQG End User License Agreement beforehand. Please note that this “Market Access” fee, collected by CQG from third party providers not using their native applications, doesn’t grant you access to any market data (as you always need to subscribe to the various CME or EUREX exchange data fees through your brokerage firm).
Testing CQG data and order execution services
If you already have a live CQG trading account, you may test or use it with Investor/RT (after contacting your broker to ensure your existing CQG credentials are enabled "for LinnSoft-Investor/RT"). Current Investor/RT subscribers who wish to try the CQG Continuum connectivity using a demonstration account with simulated trading can sign-up for a free 14-day CQG demo account. However, please note that we always recommend signing up for a CQG demo account directly with your brokerage firm (or the one you intend to join) so you can test Investor/RT in the same configuration you will use on a recurring basis.
Notes about Brokerage firms:
- StoneX: Investor/RT supports both demo and live accounts offered by Brokerage firms relying on the new StoneX CQG-based offer (that was introduced in H1 2025 after the termination of the GAIN datafeed)
- Tradovate & Ninjatrader brokerage: both companies used to offer accounts relying on CQG continuum data and execution services. This is no longer the case, with Ninjatrader brokerage having stopped providing CQG data to all its customers in March 2026. Investor/RT does not support the Travodate datafeed or the new "Ninjatrader data feed" solution offered to all Ninjatrader brokerage customers since April 2026. Regarding prop firms, we do support all Rithmic-powered plans (but none of the offers based on the Tradovate data feed).
Main real time Futures markets served: US (CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX, CFE/CBOE, ICE-US), Europe (EUREX, Euronext, ICE-EU, ICE-LIFFE) and Asia (Australia-ASX, Singapore-SGX, Hong Kong-HKFE, Osaka-OSE/JPX)
(Please contact your broker for the exact list of markets and futures contracts being made available for your account)