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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Snowden" <jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bob R" <bobrabcd@xxxxxxx>; "Omega-List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: TS2k charting delay
>
> If you run your quotemonitor in the same workspace as the one tick
> chart do you see it updating when the chart is not?
> THIS IS PROSUITE AND THE RADAR SCREEN WITH 14 SYMBOLS ALSO HAD THE SAME
> DELAY THAT THE CHARTING HAD. IT WAS IN THE SAME WORKSPACE AS THE ONE TICK
> CHART.
> Are you running the Tracking Center? If so delete it.
NO, TRACKING CENTER WAS NOT RUNNING.
>
> What are you running besides the GS and a tick chart?
THE WINDOWS TASK MANAGER SHOWS 4 TASKS, DYNASTORE, OMEGA PROSUITE, IB, GS.
THE TASK BAR SHOWS AVG7, WEBROOT SPY SWEEPER, SYGATE PERSONAL FIREWALL
>
> I've run one tick charts of ES and NQ with indicators and many other
> charts open. No problem with Esignal. If you push the computer too
> hard say with DTN satellite and thousands of symbols it will lag. Too
> many indicators can cause a problem. All of a sudden priority goes
> back to charting and zoom it catches the chart up. So it is what you
> are doing not Ts2ki.
ONLY 53 SYMBOLS ARE CONNECTED. PROBLEM EXISTS ON ESIGNAL AND IB, DIFFERENT
MACHINES, DIFFERENT OS, W2000 AND WIN XP PRO
> A THIRD MACHINE WAS TESTED WITH WIN2000 AND DUAL AMD'S WITH RAID 0, AND
> HAD THE SAME BURSTING PROBLEM.
> First off I would trash that trash data feed and Dynastore. Spend the
> money to get a good feed directly into ts2ki or change over to TS8.
> If you don't want to get rid of the crap then cut back on indicators
> etc. Also make sure you computer isn't running a bunch of junk
> including windows junk.
>
> Jimmy
>
>
>
>
> The configuration is highspeed DSL IB TWS/Dynastore/GS/TS200i on a P4 w/HT
> 3gig cpu 1 gig memory. Here's the problem. Data appears on a one tick ES
> chart in TS charting in a "bursting" mode. Today I made some visual
> comparisons between TS charting and a chart made with an IB add on called
> ZoneTrader from w.tradewithconfidence.com. The ZoneTrader tick charts run
> in a Java application off the IB API and appear to be insync with the
> quotes
> in IB TWS and the IB chart. The TS chart runs in an obvious burst mode
> where
> prices are not changing, then the plot suddenly plays catchup. There is
> no
> mistaking this delayed effect. On another machine with dual 866 PIII's
> and
> a second DSL line with esignal and TS2k a one tick ES chart was also
> opened.
> It too played the stall and catchup. I've suspected for years there was
> something amiss. Because of the difference in hardware configurations,
> and
> by elimination, it appears the source of the problem is the way TS
> charting
> gets data from the GS, or that TS charting can't handle fast data.
>
> I really don't want to give up years of work with ela and els so I am
> wondering if anyone who has seen this effect in TS2k and switched to TS8
> finds that it solves that delay/bursting problem. Also does anyone have
> comments about how Multicharts handles data with a high volume emini like
> the ES? http://www.tssupport.com/products/multicharts/ . Am trying to get
> a
> demo on that but no response yet.
>
> thanks for the feedback(either to the list or direct,
> Bob RA
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