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Post From: Lagging 10-30 sec on sudden market moves

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User753428 - Posts: 158
i've experienced datafeed lag when using Rithmic with Sierrachart countless times. especially during the first 1-2 hrs of market open when volume and volatility is high and also during sudden high-volume price spikes. although SierraChart Engineering will tell you to just switch to their own datafeed, there are many of us who need to use Rithmic as combine or funded traders with Topsteptrader, Earn2trade, Oneuptrader, SMB, Leeloo, etc. There's no alternative to Rithmic for traders with these funding companies. For example, Topsteptrader forcefully charges $105 Rithmic datafeed per CME exchange for their funded traders using Sierrachart, even if they have their own feed. So even if you want to use Sierrachart's own datafeed and just execute via Rithmic, you'd still have to pay $105 (to TST) + $140.50 (to SC for denali feed) for just one CME exchange. It gets expensive real quick. If you're a funded trader, in most cases you'll have no choice but to use the Rithmic datafeed. In this case, I suggest using other platforms that don't suffer from this lag problem. If you're not a funded trader, it's best to simply switch to a non-Rithmic feed with Sierrachart. CQG works fine for me with Sierrachart.