How does MC parse data from IB?  [SOLVED]

It is my understanding that IB only provides historical minute data, not tick data. Yet MultiCharts creates tick, volume, etc. charts from IB historical data. How is the available data parsed to tick based charts?

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It is my understanding that IB only provides historical minute data, not tick data. Yet MultiCharts creates tick, volume, etc. charts from IB historical data. How is the available data parsed to tick based charts?

IB's API also provides seconds data (see here), and 1 second data is used to create 'ticks' with IB.

I couldn't find a literal source for that, but here it says that in the settings you can change the following option:

Plot ticks either from 1 second snapshots or 5 second snapshots from server.

Thanks Josh.