Quote from MONEY4NOTHING:
Exactly what I said...their documentation says this function is called on each tick. Not sure if this is truly the case though...
The level of programming you guys are discussing is way above my head, but what a piece of software calls "a tick" is sometimes different what other pieces of software call "a tick".
Example:
market 700 bid-700.25 ask. Last trade 700.
start:
1-1 700.25 trades 10 lots.
1-2 700.25 trades 5 lots.
1-3 700.25 trades 50 lots.
1-4 700.25 trades 20 lots.
2-5 700.50 trades 5 lots. (market is now 700.25-700.50)
software 1 will call "a tick" only the 1-1 and 2-5 lines.
software 2 will call "a tick" every one of the 5 lines above.
It'd be nice to know what ninja-zenfire calls "a tick", if only to have knowledge of it, and have common meaning.
That's my 2c and probably worth less for most readers.
JW