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Not very many, for sure. Guessing it would be an extremely tiny percentage.
My understanding is this: The only issue here is bundling a trade. When I submit a market order for a 50 lot on ES, I get filled with lots of 1's and 2's and some 5's usually. Prior to MDP 3.0, each fill would count as a trade. Now my one order for 50 gets counted as one trade, regardless of the incremental fills, within an allowable limit of time.
I've not seen specific documentation on the elapsed time that is allowable.
It appears Ninjatrader backfill data is using the new data while real time Rithmic data is still the old format data. Makes for confusing and less than useful tick charts.
Tick trading has grown in popularity. I know this one guy used a bunch of them, even a 70 tick chart on the CL. I tried it. Wow was that ever a data stream. It showed some nice basing action for entry. Boy, did it clog up my ninja data base though, besides making me a little dizzy. Even midday I would have to clean the NT database tick files and cache. Lucky enuff for me someone showed me how to clean that stuff up. Ninja might encourage CME to lighten the load on their platform, with a wink wink?
My CL 2400 tick chart is not as affected as the 2000 tick ES. This is one of those days I'm glad to have time based charts, volume ladder and volume charts,also. "you only need one chart to succeed in trading". Another axiom bites the dust.
I did a test on millisecond data on ES from Friday.
Here is a snippet. You can make assumptions on how these would be grouped together under the new protocol. Keeping in mind my data is millisecond resolution, not microsecond.
Platform: Sierra Chart, TOS, Tradestation, NinjaTrader
Trading: energy
Posts: 114 since Jul 2012
Thanks Given: 81
Thanks Received: 172
i did 120 day analysis and came up with an avg of 5500 volume equivalent to 2000t on ES. i know a lot of tick chart folks use 2k. You can see in the pic, its not much different, and in many cases has cleaner price action signals. dont want to get into a tick chart discussion in this thread, just wanted to show that the alternatives are pretty clean.
I compared my realtime journal chart of the YM on a 5 BetterRenko from 4/30/15 with the current historical chart in NT (Continuum data feed from NTB). They look exactly the same, so BetterRenko folks shouldn't be affected by the data change - at least not after the bar forms (unless NT is using old historical data...)
now don't get confused about tick charts and ticks in price
renko and also range charts need a certain amount of "ticks" (as in price) before creating a new bar. it doesn't matter if a trade is reported as 1 trade with 500 contracts or 500 trades with 1 contract. with other words the meaning of a tick here is like a 1/4 point in ES.