What are the pros/cons for an in-play trader of using streaming over polling?

[arbitrage16]

Trialling it today and it certainly makes the ladders a bit more lively Would like to hear from anyone else who has made the switch, cheers

[arbitrage16]

For example, I was switching between streaming/polling on the 16.25, flat at Epsom, to test the difference and the former made it almost untradable.

[Dallas]

Won't make much difference to a manual trader, human reaction time when fully concentrating is around 200-300ms

[ShaunWhite]

Trialling it today and it certainly makes the ladders a bit more lively Would like to hear from anyone else who has made the switch, cheers

Screen refresh is faster, but the bet submission api is still the same so that's unaffected.
With a normal human reaction time being iro 200ms I don't think it would make any practical difference.

[arbitrage16]

Won't make much difference to a manual trader, human reaction time when fully concentrating is around 200-300ms

Hmmm, is that true? The fact that the ladders are completely different when switching between the two suggests it makes a pretty significant difference to a manual trader.

[ShaunWhite]

You beat me to it Dallas

[Dallas]

Won't make much difference to a manual trader, human reaction time when fully concentrating is around 200-300ms

Hmmm, is that true? The fact that the ladders are completely different when switching between the two suggests it makes a pretty significant difference to a manual trader.

For a pre-off trader seeing the markets refresh at a higher rate may give them a better feel for how/where prices are moving but no one can react as fast as 20ms to take advantage of something they see on a specific refresh

and that goes for in-play trading which your original question was about, when you see the market refresh and update the slowest part is your reaction time

[Dallas]

You beat me to it Dallas

That's cos I'm using streaming

[ShaunWhite]

You beat me to it Dallas

That's cos I'm using streaming

No it's because I typed it, the kettle boiled, and I only remembered to hit send about 15mins later.
That makes my reaction time about 900,000ms