It is because IB feed wasn't created as tick-by-tick and by no means meant to develop time&revenue collection, but fairly entirely to update TWS Exhibit grid. Connectivity: It provides low latency actual-time connectivity to Amibroker working with its proprietary plugin. The tick by tick data receives streamed to Amibroker https://andersonfgged.win-blog.com/8896003/amibroker-data-feed-options