Forex charts load faster, and stray price spikes are filtered out
Forex, metals and indices could take tens of seconds to load, especially on low timeframes. They now open in a fraction of a second. And a single price print far away from the market — like a gold tick a thousand dollars off — is now held back and dropped unless the next tick confirms it.
From waiting to instant
Opening EUR/USD on 15 minutes could keep you waiting for up to about 40 seconds. Three things added up: the terminal sends many requests as it starts, forex history sat behind request limits meant for something else, and low-timeframe history was read from the whole archive instead of the window you need. We fixed all three:
- forex candles now have their own, much higher limit per user;
- history on 5- and 15-minute charts reads in around 80 milliseconds instead of up to three seconds;
- the chart no longer asks for the same history twice at start-up, and backs off politely instead of retrying twice a second if a request fails.
No more impossible wicks
A trader spotted a gold candle with a wick a thousand dollars below the market. It came from a single bad tick in the feed. Now any single tick more than 5% away from the last price is held back until the next tick confirms it, and dropped if it doesn't. We also found and removed the few bad metal prints already in history and rebuilt the affected candles.
Nothing to switch on — open any forex pair, metal or index in the terminal.
