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>From: "BobR" <bobrabcd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> This is what IB told me this morning:
>> "What you are seeing on the TWS screen is real time, the market
>>depth screen is a snapshot that refreshes every 5 seconds."
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>Maybe they think that a "heartbeat" with an interval of 0.3 seconds is
>real time. I would not blame them because with a lot of securities etc.
>that is faster than they are traded.
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>My information is the same as Alex's so my guess would be that
>the ib people "misinformed" you. (but not on purpose)
I think I may have gotten that information from the documentation of
their API that lets you write custom software to interact with TWS.
-A
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