Ninja Trader vs Multicharts

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NT major draw back is they use PC timestamps!
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There was a lot about computer time here. I don't
know if you saw it or not. (I'm not saying you're wrong.)

Thread title:

Why is IB's time 5 seconds behind the official time?

One of many posts:

I can tell you the IB time is pretty accurate (a few seconds off is possible though). So it is important to have an accurate system clock, and most are not. The problem is due to...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showt...5976&perpage=6&highlight=seconds&pagenumber=9
 
I use ninja and really like it. I am not a programmer but so far whenever i have wanted something custom, I have just googled it and found that someone else has already made it.

The new release is a month or 3, and is going to support spread charting. YAY!
 
Yes I've seen that thread and many more. What I meant was that NT apparently uses the user's PC time for the Timestamps of the tick which is horrible. That's what their support has confirmed to me but I am hoping the support was wrong since the help files tell a different story and I'm waiting to confirm this very important issue.

Quote from stephenszpak:

There was a lot about computer time here. I don't
know if you saw it or not. (I'm not saying you're wrong.)

Thread title:

Why is IB's time 5 seconds behind the official time?

One of many posts:

I can tell you the IB time is pretty accurate (a few seconds off is possible though). So it is important to have an accurate system clock, and most are not. The problem is due to...

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showt...5976&perpage=6&highlight=seconds&pagenumber=9
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Quote from ML_QUANT:
Yes I've seen that thread and many more. What I meant was that NT apparently uses the user's PC time for the Timestamps of the tick which is horrible. That's what their support has confirmed to me but I am hoping the support was wrong since the help files tell a different story and I'm waiting to confirm this very important issue.
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which data feed do you use?
 
Quote from ML_QUANT:

What I meant was that NT apparently uses the user's PC time for the Timestamps of the tick which is horrible.
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This is inaccurate. If the feed we connect into provides a time stamp at the tick level then we use this, if the feed does not provide a timestamp then we have to use the local PC time stamp.
 
I use Zen and after further research found out that NT actually does transmit the exchange timestamps if provided by the feed, which Zen doe but they do convert it to the user's pc's timezone, which I wish they wouldn't have.

It would be much less problematic if they supplied the exchange timestamps in their raw and original form period. There cannot be any purpose to this conversion other than causing latency and other problems. It is also much more trustful if one could actually see the exchange times so they could be compared and immediately identified as which exchange ticks are coming through delayed.
 
Yes but, you still do convert the exchange ticks time to the user's local pc time or not?
Also can you explain the logic and the benefit of this conversion?

Quote from NinjaTrader_Ray:

This is inaccurate. If the feed we connect into provides a time stamp at the tick level then we use this, if the feed does not provide a timestamp then we have to use the local PC time stamp.
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