What are the advantages of tick charts ?

Today using either a tick/volume/time chart the trade was the 3 pm selloff. I don't really think it mattered which chart as long as your eyes were on the markets.

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As a result of recent events (CME‘s New Trade Message Aggregation Model, effective today, http://www.cme.com/trading/get/dev/marketdata2848.html) it seems that tick charts can be easily manipulated by the CME and or others (brokers and charting data providers), which make them less stable than time or volume charts. Therefore I’m making the switch to volume charts.

I read that link & I am sorry but I don't understand what you mean.

Can you please explain a little more ?

Would it make a huge difference to a point wher most of the time they will be unreliable or just once in a while ? I like tick charts mainly of e minis. ( ES, NQ, YM & ZB )

Thanks
 
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We dug further into this, and there may be some notice seen at the tick chart level. It used to be that CME had a feed that aggregated trades at the same price like the new Trade (M6) Message Aggregation Model, and another feed that broke everything out individually. Earlier in the year, we switched to the latter. CME later in the year dropped the aggregate feed, so there has been only one feed across all data vendors and brokers.

Now, due to sheer increases seen in market activity, the CME has gone back to aggregating trades again. There is the possibility that it may be noticed that the CME feed behaves differently with the new aggregation in place if digging down into the trades at the tick level.

JayF has just replied to a thread or forum you have subscribed to entitled - Will the Globex Data Changes Impact My Tick Charts? - in the eSignal forum of eSignal Bulletin Board.

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http://forum.esignalcentral.com/showthread.php?threadid=16439&goto=newpost
 
Quote from kevinmclark:

The following is eSignal's response to this change:

[thread]16439[/thread]

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JayF has just replied to a thread or forum you have subscribed to entitled - Will the Globex Data Changes Impact My Tick Charts? - in the eSignal forum of eSignal Bulletin Board.

This thread is located at:
http://forum.esignalcentral.com/showthread.php?threadid=16439&goto=newpost


Thanks Kevin, I will follow that thread. Keep me posted.
 
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