CQG, Inc. and 4th Story today announced that 4th Story has connected its financial services software products to CQG’s market data servers and Hosted Exchange Gateways via CQG’s Data and Trading APIs. 4th Story joins a growing list of companies taking advantage of CQG’s industry-leading API and hosting services.

CQG users can now execute on trading signals created within CQG’s state-of-the-art analysis tools via 4S.Everglades™, 4th Story’s high-performance automated trading platform. The signals can trigger custom execution strategies, including pairs, order routing, TWAP/VWAP, and others. In addition, automated strategies running within 4th Story can take advantage of CQG’s ultra-low-latency market data and exchange connectivity offerings.

CQG’s Data and Trading APIs are available as part of their flagship product, the CQG Integrated Client, and can be utilized with any object-oriented programming language including Microsoft Excel® VBA, Visual Basic, C#, and C++. CQG also provides direct connectivity to their Hosted Exchange Gateways using the industry standard FIX protocol via CQG’s FIX 4.2 API. By using CQG’s API solutions, partners and customers can route orders directly to CQG’s gateways through their own proprietary applications.

"We are pleased to partner with 4th Story to provide them with our powerful API solutions,” said Yuriy Shterk, Vice President of Product Development at CQG. "Traders will benefit from the integration of 4th Story’s complex event processing systems and CQG’s ultra-low-latency direct market access to enhance revenue and productivity.”

"The combination of the power of CQG’s analytics and market connectivity with 4th Story’s robust, automated trading platform lets strategists get their ideas to market quickly and efficiently,” said Steve Smith, CEO of 4th Story. "It is a great option for professional traders.”

CQG’s APIs offer solutions for customers requiring the most reliable data, powerful analytics, and advanced trading. The many scalable features include real-time and historical data from over one hundred sources; Microsoft Excel® modeling; multiple asset classes including futures, options, fixed income, and foreign exchange; access to free API samples and templates; and trading on more than twenty-five exchanges.

About 4th Story (www.4thstory.com)

4th Story, LLC’s software suite quickly enables and manages automated trading opportunities for brokers, hedge funds, and institutional traders. The company’s products give the user the power of rapid testing and implementation of arbitrarily complex quantitative, algorithmic, and automated trading strategies including baskets, lists, index and pairs trading and complex algorithmic execution, order routing, market making, and arbitrage.

About CQG (www.cqg.com)

CQG, Inc. is the industry’s highest-performing solution for integrating market data, technical analysis, and trade routing. CQG’s data coverage includes futures, options, fixed income, foreign exchange, and equities worldwide as well as debt securities, reports, and indices. CQG is headquartered in Denver, Colorado with sales and support offices worldwide. For more information about CQG, please call 1-800-525-7082. From outside the US and Canada, visit www.cqg.com for contact information.