] Let's be clear. the data is NOT repeat NOT 5 seconds behind. It is timely and does especially well during active periods. the person is complaining that they believe the time displayed on the TWS is 5 seconds off. I've personally tested on 2 servers against the link I posted and it matches perfectly.
Just tell all the severely time challenged complainers to sync their computer clock with an atomic clock every day before they open TWS.
As def says, TWS time and data is not lagging. I can compare TWS data to that of Reuters, eSignal, and numerous local (Japan) brokers. If there's any difference among them, you'll need an Olympic quality stopwatch to measure it.
Here's BookTrader and that from a local broker for Topix futures. As you can see all 10 bid/ask sizes are exactly the same. If TWS was lagging even 1 second, this would be impossible. Proof enough?
5 seconds may not seem like a lot to the average joe, but thats a lot when trading. What happened to the 5 seconds and how does IB take advantage of the 5 second delay?
And with that question, moron is lowered to a whole new level. They use it to spoof the market. You see the market as it was, place your orders, and IB, terrible terrible people that they are obviously fill you to their own advantage. LMAO. What a moron.