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Post From: Real Time Data Feed quality

[2015-10-14 17:37:11]
Sierra Chart Engineering - Posts: 104368
This does not make any sense. The data feed is excellent and if it is being described as "absolute crap" then you must not be using it. If it is like you are describing, we would be having other reports of a problem and we simply do not.

Also what is meant by "bad bars". Please be very descriptive. It does not make sense that when you re-download the data, you would get a different result. This is a clear indication you are not actually using the Sierra Chart Exchange Data Feed.

It sounds like you are using the Interactive Brokers data.

Do you see any [M] indicator after the symbol at the top of the chart?

One problem that we have had sometimes in the past is with packet loss which could slightly reduce the amount of data being transmitted and recorded. But that problem was resolved.

When we checked this morning for the CME channel packet lost during a busy hour we see nothing (Times are UTC):

2015-10-14 13:50:12 | CME:C(310) PerfCnt: Lost Packets = 0 / 462741 (0.000) Feed A Dr/Rx = 0 / 462741 (0.000) Feed B Dr/Rx = 0 / 462741 (0.000) A/B/SS MaxQ: 308 / 299 / 2 MaxRdy: 28672 / 29960 / 2628
2015-10-14 13:50:12 | CME:C(318) PerfCnt: Lost Packets = 0 / 643731 (0.000) Feed A Dr/Rx = 1 / 643730 (0.000) Feed B Dr/Rx = 2 / 643729 (0.000) A/B/SS MaxQ: 306 / 303 / 2 MaxRdy: 25036 / 27644 / 2826
2015-10-14 13:50:12 | CME:C(314) PerfCnt: Lost Packets = 0 / 553363 (0.000) Feed A Dr/Rx = 0 / 553363 (0.000) Feed B Dr/Rx = 0 / 553363 (0.000) A/B/SS MaxQ: 147 / 147 / 2 MaxRdy: 7104 / 7104 / 2652
2015-10-14 13:50:12 | CME:C(312) PerfCnt: Lost Packets = 0 / 1779106 (0.000) Feed A Dr/Rx = 4 / 1779102 (0.000) Feed B Dr/Rx = 5 / 1779101 (0.000) A/B/SS MaxQ: 510 / 505 / 6 MaxRdy: 131132 / 117460 / 8242
2015-10-14 13:50:12 | CME:C(316) PerfCnt: Lost Packets = 0 / 157779 (0.000) Feed A Dr/Rx = 0 / 157779 (0.000) Feed B Dr/Rx = 0 / 157779 (0.000) A/B/SS MaxQ: 95 / 91 / 4 MaxRdy: 33284 / 32720 / 5324
2015-10-14 13:50:12 | CME:C(320) PerfCnt: Lost Packets = 0 / 1053127 (0.000) Feed A Dr/Rx = 1 / 1053126 (0.000) Feed B Dr/Rx = 1 / 1053126 (0.000) A/B/SS MaxQ: 161 / 161 / 2 MaxRdy: 17856 / 17856 / 2746


With what we see with packet loss and considering the hardware that we use, the data feed is working 100% perfect. It does not get better than this.

So there is another explanation to the problem. Other users of our data feed are not going to report it as "absolute crap". Not at all.
Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level

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Date Time Of Last Edit: 2015-10-14 17:38:36