Hi everyone,
I've noticed that charts in MC are lagging on average 0.5 seconds behind the (snapshot) data shown on ticker rows in TWS.
I assume this is because MC requests 1s historical bar charts.
Is there an option to receive snapshot ticks directly (and let MC build the chart based on them) instead of historical bar charts?
(ticks are supplied through IB's API via reqMktData/tickprice methods)
Thank you
Gerhard
Interactive Brokers lagging tick data
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Re: Interactive Brokers lagging tick data
Hello Gerhard,
MultiCharts is already capable of getting realtime data from IB API and does it by default without additional configuration. The realtime bars are built out of the realtime tick data provided by IB API. This is not related to getting historical 1 sec data from IB.
A small lag between the API providing the data and showing it in MultiCharts is possible. It depends on your PC configuration, third party applications running in the background and current resources usage.
Please synchronize your PC clock with the Internet Time. If you can see a significant lag between IB TWS window and MultiCharts - please come to our live chat Monday-Friday 6:30 am - 3 pm EST and we will connect to your PC remotely to compare the data stream in MultiCharts with IB API example data stream.
MultiCharts is already capable of getting realtime data from IB API and does it by default without additional configuration. The realtime bars are built out of the realtime tick data provided by IB API. This is not related to getting historical 1 sec data from IB.
A small lag between the API providing the data and showing it in MultiCharts is possible. It depends on your PC configuration, third party applications running in the background and current resources usage.
Please synchronize your PC clock with the Internet Time. If you can see a significant lag between IB TWS window and MultiCharts - please come to our live chat Monday-Friday 6:30 am - 3 pm EST and we will connect to your PC remotely to compare the data stream in MultiCharts with IB API example data stream.