I've searched and hope this hasn't been answered before, if so I apologize and request a link to the answer.
I am seeing time differences in the bar Times[0] value and the current system time and having ruled out NTP clock disparity and want to understand why. For a liquid and actively traded security (emini S&P) the Time[0] timestamp with CalculateOnbarUpdate=true and the local system time varies greatly.
Is the difference due to the time between the bar close and next tick received ? I understand that the bar will not be closed until an "after" tick is received, but given a liquid active contract in the middle of a busy session (emini s&p), I would assume that tick time to be insignificant. What am I missing in my reasoning?
Thanks for insight.
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