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RE: Screen Update Speed Charting emini



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Ever consider the possibility that the rate of ticks may be orders of
magnitude greater ?

Ever wonder why the data vendors can't "throttle" the feed and send 1 minute
bars instead ?
So do I. That would eliminate your problem entirely.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Watkins [mailto:mwatkins@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 12:00 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Screen Update Speed Charting emini
>
>
> Greetings all,
>
> I've been using TS for some time for trading stocks and am making
> a move to
> trading futures. In the past and still true today with TS2Ki SP2, SP3 and
> SP4 - when I chart the emini the screen update speed is intolerable.
>
> Specifically what happens is:
> - flashes (I can live with this)
> - the cursor goes to hourglass for 3/4 of second in a rythmic
> pulsing manner
> every 2 to 4 seconds. Even stipoping all indicators off causes this to
> happen. It happens in all time scales. (this is my real issue)
>
> Any thoughts on this? I don't see this behaviour with stocks at all, not
> even the very high tick volume issues.
>
> Thanks and best regards
> Michael
>