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Working with the Current Hectic Market Environment – Update 2
During the past 2 weeks of extreme market actions across virtually all markets (stocks, commodities, forex, bonds, etc.), we’ve notice that time lag is experienced on all real-time data services. During the extreme market actions, the time a tick arrives at NeoTicker comparing to the time of the computer clock lags from 5 seconds to 15 seconds.
Based on our observation, when such delay happens, it does not matter you are tracking 100 symbols or less, or that you are tracking 1000 symbols. It just happens. Thus the root of the issue could be one or more of the following reasons,
1. Capacity max out at the data vendor’s servers
2. Overall internet traffic is flooded
3. The specific path way your internet connection to your data services is choked with too much data
In a situation like that, we’ve found brokerages that sends only timer based updates on current quotes can keep you informed of the latest prices. That can help you better gauge the current price level on the markets you trade.
At our end, we will try to add some new features in NeoTicker to inform the users when such condition happens, so that they are better prepared.