Demark Lines Live & Demo Accounts - Pip Cop

**1ka** · 2008-11-14, 03:26 AM

Noobs question

Why has the demo traded and the live one not (say at 12:00 on the 13th). I appreciate they have different lot-sizes and balance, but wouldn't they trade at similar times, since they are looking at the same pair? Being programmed, I would have thought there would be some similarity between the two.

I'm missing something obvious, I think.

**PipCop** · 2008-11-14, 08:29 AM

Different brokerages have slightly different data coming from their feeds, and may even have a different spread

. Therefore, you will see discrepancies between them. From a hardware perspective, a Demo and a Live feed from a brokerage should be the same, but the demo server may be slower if it's a smaller/cheaper server they use, as opposed to big powerful live servers.