for the last 2 days my quotes are messed up. every few seconds i get an out of range print that causes a long candle. its happening on ib and qcharts so i dont think its my computer. anyone else?
I'm seeing the same thing, its not related to a particular quote provider or a particular stock..its all over
yeah. I'm getting it too. And I'm using completely different software/data feed than you are. From what I understand it's an Island and Nasdaq reporting issue. What I did today was just stick to NYSE. To filter out bad ticks I enter "XOM.N" which just gives me NYSE prints and quotes. But now the orders are slow to cancel and fill. I just took a smack in the ass (made $ but couldn't cancel stop in time)..so I think I might call it a day. Don't need slow cancels in this sort of market. Good luck.
i was getting that too on all my data sources. i'd like to know the source of the problem because made it hard to tell what was happening.
We've had several calls related to listed stocks trading via NASDAQ. If that's what you are seeing during these time frames, here's NASDAQ's system status page for more info: http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/SystemStatus.asp 02/28/2007 12:46:28 ET Trade reports to SIAC and the Consolidated tape in NYSE AMEX listed securities are real-time 02/28/2007 11:00:41 ET NASDAQ is investigating intermittent slowness in trade reporting in NYSE AMEX listed securities. NASDAQ will advise.
Scott, just look at some of the charts from this morning if you want to see what we mean. DIA for example. On the 1 min chart this morning you can see all the spikes that were showing up.
I have eSignal, too, and this has now been discussed on numerous threads. THe wild bars are from the late prints on NMS trades. THe charting program just draws the bars as the prints appear, so they are unusually wide, and jump back and forth 10, 20, 50 or more cents at a time sometimes.