The LSE Directory / Charting platforms
CQG, formally Commodity Quote Graphics, is a financial markets technology provider based in Denver, Colorado, offering trade routing, real time and historical market data, and technical analysis and charting software for futures and options markets. Its product line includes the CQG Integrated Client platform, the multi asset, multi broker CQG One, CQG Desktop, CQG Mobile, and CQG APIs for custom system integration, alongside CQG Spreader and QTrader for order execution. The company provides direct market access to more than 45 exchanges through co-located Hosted Exchange Gateways, consolidates pricing from about 85 market data sources, and connects to roughly 130 broker environments across more than 60 countries. CQG concentrates on the futures and options segment of trading technology, serving futures commission merchants, clearing firms, commodity trading advisors, commercial hedgers, proprietary trading firms, institutional investors, and exchanges rather than a broad retail brokerage audience. Its point of difference from generalist trading platforms is low latency connectivity built directly into exchange co-location facilities, paired with a technical analysis and historical tick data toolset (including its Portara and Datafactory products) developed specifically for derivatives markets rather than adapted from an equities first platform. The Continuum division, launched in 2010, packages this connectivity as APIs for firms that want to build their own execution and analytics systems rather than use CQG's own front end. CQG was founded in 1980 by Tim Mather in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, and grew from a specialized futures charting service into a global trading technology firm, expanding into Europe in 1988 and Asia in 1998. It remained privately held for more than four decades; in 2023 Mather transferred ownership to a group of senior executives led by long serving CEO Ryan Moroney. On 6 February 2026, CQG entered into an agreement to be acquired by Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR); the deal closed on 1 May 2026, with Broadridge's SEC filings reporting a purchase price of approximately 173.0 million dollars plus contingent consideration, and CQG now sits inside Broadridge's GTO reportable segment. Under Broadridge, CQG's execution management, algorithmic trading, and analytics technology is being integrated with Broadridge's existing order management and client connectivity platform to build what the two companies describe as an end to end, multi asset trading solution spanning futures, options, FX, and digital assets. Frank Troise, President of Broadridge's Trading and Connectivity Solutions, said the acquisition would create a unified platform in futures and options, while CQG CEO Ryan Moroney framed the combination around giving CQG's client base greater speed, intelligence, and scale.
