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Re: Tick differences



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Jay Becker wrote:

>I am trading live with a trader in a different state and we keep an open
>line during trading hours.  He has BMI cable and I have BMI satellite
>and from time to time either he will miss a tick or I will get an extra
>tick.  We trade using tickbar charts and with even just one tick being
>different, it will change the bars for the rest of the day.
>
>If I find that I have an extra tick, then I can delete 1 tick in the
>server and then we will have the same bar formations, but sometimes when
>I do that, while my screens are being updated, I will miss a new tick
>coming up and that further increases the problem.
>
>Any ideas as to how to syncronize our machines?


Try using T/Link on both machines.  That should minimize data processing
deletions (dropped ticks) caused by the Omega server...info below.

Frank Bacon
T/Link Ltd
e-mail: tlink@xxxxxx


                Tony Haas

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