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Topic: Why are ticker messages in the MtGox PubNub API repeated? (Read 521 times)

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I'm using MtGox's PubNub API to fetch ticker data. I've subscribed to the BTC/EUR ticker with id 0bb6da8b-f6c6-4ecf-8f0d-a544ad948c15 . In more than half the cases when I receive a new ticker message, the data is just the same as that of the previous message, except for the timestamp of course. I expected ticker messages only when there is new data available, so I do not understand why the ticker messages get repeated. Examples:


diff_to_previous  instant_________      last_all        last_local      last_orig       buy_____        sell____        vwap____        vol_____________    item  avg_____      high____        low_____
n/a               2013-12-12 16:31:46   EUR 628.31408   EUR 620.22000   USD 865.00000   EUR 620.22000   EUR 629.00000   EUR 647.91649   BTC 1365.61335998   BTC   EUR 649.27938 EUR 680.00000   EUR 615.00000
none              2013-12-12 16:31:50   EUR 628.31408   EUR 620.22000   USD 865.00000   EUR 620.22000   EUR 629.00000   EUR 647.91649   BTC 1365.61335998   BTC   EUR 649.27938 EUR 680.00000   EUR 615.00000
none              2013-12-12 16:31:53   EUR 628.31408   EUR 620.22000   USD 865.00000   EUR 620.22000   EUR 629.00000   EUR 647.91649   BTC 1365.61335998   BTC   EUR 649.27938 EUR 680.00000   EUR 615.00000
last_all          2013-12-12 16:32:05   EUR 617.41846   EUR 620.22000   USD 850.00000   EUR 620.23000   EUR 629.00000   EUR 647.91649   BTC 1365.61335998   BTC   EUR 649.27938 EUR 680.00000   EUR 615.00000


What kind of events trigger a ticker message to be broadcast?

This question is also on http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/18611/why-are-ticker-messages-in-the-mtgox-pubnub-api-repeated .
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