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It would depend on the time of day and the pace that orders are hitting the tape. At a quick glance at a 5000 tick chart and looking at the time from Frankfurt open to 2 hours past US open ( about 9 hours) I see roughly ( on my zenfire feed):
35000 ticks last friday
90000 ticks last thursday
over 150000 ticks on the 17th of Dec
So even in this sample it ranges from 4000 to 17000 ticks per hour and it would be a lot faster than that at times, and much slower outside of those hours.
Do the maths from there to get an idea of what speeds might approximate what timeframes.
It's subjective to assume tick charts are superior to time-based charts. In fact, i think this is the opposite but that's just my subjectivity. There are positive and minus aspects for both species.
Iīm combining a 10 min with a tick or volume based chart. Donīt forget that all the charts are created from the Time and Sales list. So it really doesnīt matter what you are using. Itīs depend more of the range of the day. You want that the moves will be foreseeable. So combining charts and changing them according the day moves is a good choice.
Of course you have to include a bigger time frame too, so you are able to see the bigger moves.
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there is no tick chart equivalent because tick charts are not time based. Sometimes it will match a 200 tick chart and sometimes it will match a 2000 tick chart.