Spo​twa​re Syste​ms have an​noun​ced the re​lea​se of tick char​ts to their fla​g​ship NDD spot-tra​ding pla​tfor​ms, cTra​der and cA​l​go. Whi​le conven​tio​nal time-ba​sed char​ts plot a new bar or point accor​ding to a time-pe​riod va​lue, tick-char​ts crea​te the new bar after a set nu​mber of pri​ce ti​cks.Spo​twa​re has said that the re​lea​se coin​ci​des with a sur​ge in de​mand for tick char​ts from the cTra​der user base. Alex Ka​tsa​ros, Рro​du​ct Ma​na​ger for cTra​der, explai​ned: "This in​tro​du​ction of tick char​ts to cTra​der will let tra​ders sca​lp the mar​ke​ts at the hi​g​he​st po​ssi​ble level, whi​ch is uni​ma​gi​na​ble for users of co​mpe​ting pla​tfor​ms that don't su​pport tick char​ts. And we've not only ope​ned the door to new tra​ding and ana​lysis oppor​tu​ni​ties but re​spon​ded to one of the most po​pu​lar fea​tu​re re​que​sts we've had in the last few mon​ths. "We use tra​der fee​dba​ck and mar​ket de​mand to de​fi​ne our deve​lo​pment prio​ri​ties, so we're exci​ted to fi​na​lly de​liver this hi​g​hly re​que​sted fea​tu​re." Ka​tsa​ros also stre​ssed that the new fea​tu​re can be used with any of cTra​de​r's 4 chart types, sa​ying "Tick char​ts can be applied to can​dle​sti​cks, bar char​ts, line char​ts, and the ne​wly re​lea​sed dot-chart." Often used by te​ch​ni​cal tra​ders due to their de​mon​stra​ble cor​re​la​tion with mar​ket li​qui​di​ty, tick char​ts have also been re​lea​sed to cA​l​go, Spo​twa​re's al​go​ri​thmic tra​ding pla​tform. Ser​gey Bo​ri​sov, te​ch​ni​cal lead for cA​l​go, was en​thu​sia​stic about its po​ten​tial impa​ct: "By being able to use tick char​ts as a pe​rio​di​ci​ty pa​ra​me​ter, we're le​tting cA​l​go tra​ders take time out of the equa​tion when crea​ting their stra​te​gies, and in​stead use mar​ket vo​la​ti​li​ty and in​fer​red li​qui​di​ty leve​ls as a base for their code. In the fu​tu​re, we also want to allow our users to re​fe​ren​ce both tick and pri​ce data from a sing​le tra​ding ro​bot." Tick char​ts in cTra​der and cA​l​go can be set to draw a new bar at every tick or to di​splay an ag​g​re​ga​ted view of up to 55 ti​cks for each bar.