fluttrader... thankyou for that link. That might be just the solution that I need to solve my time synching problems. Provided that IB who refuse to allow there clients to accesss THEY'RE OFFICIAL TIME and how THEY choose to interpret it and my idea of what official time is agree with each other. Otherwise the tiny differences in how I interpret official time and they interpret official time will cause how I see a chart and how they see it to be different and Ill be unable to efficiently use there system since my bars will be slightly diffferent from theyre bars. The simple solution... Make TWS official clock time synch with a generic official standard that THEY also use instead of creating an artificial difference by not allowing there customers to use theyre most valuable resource... THERE OFFICIAL interpretation of time. This whole business is based on time stamping and they wont permit there customers to synchronise with there internal clocks. Thats criminal.
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Why is IB's time 5 seconds behind the official time?
- Thread starter Big Game Hunter
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if you feel that strongly simply find another broker.
What Im really saying is that if your going to run an ATS automated system using there software the one most crucial element thats missing is the abilty to synchronise your trading system with there internal time clock mechanism in order that your system and there system stay in perfect synch. For those who think Im being pedantic its just so essential that your in synch with them perfectly because thats the whole point of business. To keep perfect time with business. And the only way to do that is to accurately synchronise there internal server clock beacuse otherwise your dead in the water. Your on 2 different pages and I cant believe that this issue hasnt been addressed already.
Unfortunately they insist on not allowing there customers access to there official internal server time that keeps all there charts ticking over on a PRE DETERMINED basis and instead ask that you rely on being able to guess at what theyre clock are actually displaying. And thats why youre system is doomed to failure because youre on two different clock sets.
NO CLING WRAP
Good idea. If you check esignals website youll see that IB is designed to exactly synvchronise with Esignal tick for tick . MEANING... they support a generic standard for time that THEY share but that they wont allow you to share. Check and see if you dont believe me. REDIPLUS and IB are two platforms which allow for whats known as 'integrated trading' meaning they both synchronise THEYRE clock with each other precisely.