Interactive Brokers Forex tick chart realtime data does not match history
Interactive Brokers Forex tick chart realtime data does not match history
I set Interactive Brokers data source setting "Build Tick-based Bars" to 1 Tick. I can see the history data back filled for an Forex Trade chart is true tick chart. But the real time data updating is very slowly, likes 5 seconds chart. They does not match.
Re: Interactive Brokers Forex tick chart realtime data does not match history
It's not THAT REAL ticks but it does load history ticks data when I set option to "1 Tick". It's not issue of the quality of IB ticks data, the realtime data is actually 5 seconds data instead of updating per tick. You can see the difference from the line chart. On the left part, lines just look like a tick chart, on the right part of chart lines updated very slowly just like a 5 second chart.
Re: Interactive Brokers Forex tick chart realtime data does not match history
Be warned, IB intra-day real-time price and volume data doesn't always match intra-day historical price and volume, tick or otherwise. As many others have discovered including myself, IB data is so so for some uses but too often is crap for serious trading. I use IQFeed for my data-feed.
Re: Interactive Brokers Forex tick chart realtime data does not match history
This issue isn't IB realtime ticks data does not match histroy. The issue is the IB realtime ticks data for forex in Multicharts is actually 5 seconds data.
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Re: Interactive Brokers Forex tick chart realtime data does not match history
Have you read the specification in IB's website?This issue isn't IB realtime ticks data does not match histroy. The issue is the IB realtime ticks data for forex in Multicharts is actually 5 seconds data.
Re: Interactive Brokers Forex tick chart realtime data does not match history
It's irrelevant to IB's tick data specification. It's just not IB's tick data. It's IB's 5 seconds data.
Have you read the specification in IB's website?
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Re: Interactive Brokers Forex tick chart realtime data does not match history
a lot of ticks within 5 sec allocated to a single time point timestamp every 5 sec
for AUDCAD 4 to 8 within 5 sec
for AUDCAD 4 to 8 within 5 sec