Difference between Last traded timestamp and Exchange timestamp

ramprabhu77444
What is the Difference between Last traded timestamp and Exchange timestamp in the quotes ? Can someone explain with an example pls..
  • sujith
    Hi @ramprabhu77444,
    The last traded timestamp is the timestamp at which last trade has happened.
    The exchange timestamp is the timestamp of the tick. Exchange publishes a tick when market depth data changes also.
  • mnkartik
    Hi @Sujith, would like to get more understanding. Following are the scenarios and would like to know which timestamp will change for these scenarios.

    Q: When bid / ask changes and price is not change ( no trade )
    Q: When bid / ask changes and trade occurs
  • sujith
    A tick timestamp would be updated for both the cases whereas last traded timestamp would update only when there is a trade.

    But again one can't really gauge it by just looking at one or two ticks. In a second there can be hundreds of ticks at the exchange but a trading terminal will only receive one or two ticks since it is streamed via the internet.
    To receive tick by tick data one has to be located at the exchange.
  • sujith
    We don't assign these timestamps, we just stream whatever exchange send us.
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