Welcome to NexusFi: the best trading community on the planet, with over 150,000 members Sign Up Now for Free
Genuine reviews from real traders, not fake reviews from stealth vendors
Quality education from leading professional traders
We are a friendly, helpful, and positive community
We do not tolerate rude behavior, trolling, or vendors advertising in posts
We are here to help, just let us know what you need
You'll need to register in order to view the content of the threads and start contributing to our community. It's free for basic access, or support us by becoming an Elite Member -- see if you qualify for a discount below.
-- Big Mike, Site Administrator
(If you already have an account, login at the top of the page)
Hey guys I am no expert in trading systems development, but was wondering if there was a way to test latency in NT to make sure that #1 the data is not lagging behind and also that NT is not hung up and is still monitoring the trades.
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
You can set up a timer to run an event and do stuff in your event.
I've been thinking about the best way to approach the same problem but never settled on a solution. Part of the solution would be to monitor the quality of your internet connection somehow, since that is more likely to cause you problems than the actual price feed, assuming you have a reliable quote provider.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Data will always be lagging, the further you are away from the exchange the more lag you will experience.
You could, however measure the lag and warn on higher than usual lag, one issue here is that your computer clock might not be accurate enough.
Regarding checking NT, you would have to monitor that from a different process, as NT will not be able to respond to any internal checking when hung up...
As @Adamus suggested, checking things (internet connection, feed updates coming in) on timer tick might be the most practical way to monitor some of the stuff...
The best thing to ensure NT stability is to only have well coded indicators/strategies in NT (running or not).
Cool, thanks for the advice, yes I'm only really concerned with serious lags, since I've got a swing trading system, so say like 20 mins late, that sort of thing.
You will not get serious lags, if you use proper indicators and strategies. For swing trading you should be able to trade thousands of instruments simultaneously without getting any lag.
Just make sure that you have a real-time data feed.