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Date/Time: Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:20:46 +0000
Post From: OS Timers vs SC Timers discussion again... SC Timers chart update limitations
| [2026-01-25 20:31:03] |
| n8trading - Posts: 69 |
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In 2868, setting the minimum delay to 1ms meaningfully improves chart update speed and seems to be plenty of delay to allow for UI responsiveness as well. However, chart update speed is still noticeably not as fast as when using OS timers - you can tell by how much the price action "jitters" with OS timers vs SC timers. It may be good enough to use for my style of trading now - I will have to test that out when I get a chance. I am sure that from a background technical standpoint, the SC timers are better. But in practice for the end-user (me), they are effectively not as good as OS timers when it comes to chart update speed. SC timers appear to allow better balance between chart update speed and UI responsiveness, when they are tuned optimally via their related settings. In other words, they appear to solve the issue that some users have or complain of where chart updates are not occurring (or do not appear to be occurring) or are not as fast when interacting/drawing on the chart, but that is a non-issue for me (I am not interacting with the chart when making trades, or if I do, it is for a brief period that does not affect my trading). Chart update speed when not interacting with the chart is the priority for me, and OS timers seem to work better for me for that priority. So with that being said, is there any reason for me to use SC timers instead of OS timers? Is there some other expected benefit from SC timers that I may not be aware of or not noticing but could actually experience in practice that could either improve the data I am relying on for my trading, or improve my overall experience with SC? The only thing I can think of is that maybe with SC timers, chart updates are technically more reliable/dependable/expected, meaning SC engineers know they will occur and not get skipped by some OS timer logic, but this may be imperceptible to the end-user. Thank you! |