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But, and correct me if I'm wrong obviously, this isn't sending quotes to the client real time, it's just sending them in 5 second batches?

I guess I'm struggling to see how:

"Stock quotes are pulled from Google Finance and are real-time."

and

"By default stock quotes are fetched every 5 seconds, and pushed to the client."

Work together...

Great work on sharing the code though, thanks.

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In finance, real-time quotes means not delayed by 20 minutes. The price returned should be real-time in those terms.

In finance, real-time means receiving each tick or trade record. Aggregating prices over 5 seconds and sending that data every 5 seconds is "aggregated data over 5 seconds".

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"Real time. You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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