Basically, when running in Local mode and using a Tick chart, it seems that there is no way to have the play back be in "real-time".
=Example=
mode: Tick by Tick
speed: 1 update per second
what happens in real market: 10 ticks occur in 1 second
what happens in playback: those same 10 ticks take 10 seconds to playback (1 update per second)
I want to use a Tick chart but playback all ticks in actual real-time. There will of course be a different amount of ticks each second (and some seconds no ticks at all, which makes playback skip those seconds entirely).
Anyone know if there is a way to correct this?
My Original Post, Feel Free to Ignore:
Hello,
I'm new to MC and have spent the past day going through it. It seems to have everything I'm looking for, I'm a user coming from NT and familiar with how replay works on that platform.
I am trying to learn a discretionary method and I always use tick charts when trading in futures.
Now, when I try to use the replay function of MultiCharts with tick charts and set it to play Tick by Tick and have play speed set at 1 update per second, the problem is that it doesn't play back as it would have in real time.
Since it's only updating 1 piece of data per second, if there was 5 ticks in 1 second during the real market time, it would take 5 seconds to play this back in MC.
This is of course a problem because it isn't realistic at all. Visually, you could see the 5 ticks in real-time happening all in 1 second, allowing you to perceive heavier market activity.
The second problem is that if a tick wasn't recorded in real time for 10 seconds (for example), on this playback mode, that 10 second lapse would occur in 1 second.
I'm using data pulled from CQG btw, only using data from the past week from their live demo feed.
Hopefully this makes sense. I don't see any solution to this problem and if it's not possible to replay tick charts in "normal" time, as they occurred (like watching a recording) then I won't be able to use MC to practice new strategies on market replays.
Anyone know if there is a way to correct this?