# IG Streaming CHART:{epic}:TICK Independent and unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any broker or platform named here. Educational only: nothing here is advice, and nothing here recommends a broker or a trade. This is the markdown version of https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/ig/messages/chart-tick, written from the same records as that page. Risk warning: CFDs and spread bets are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You can lose money on these products, and each provider publishes its own loss figure under FCA rules. You should consider whether you understand how they work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Automated and API trading can amplify losses through bugs, connectivity failures and runaway orders. Tick data for one market: each update carries the bid, the offer, the last traded price and volume, with the day's open, high, low and change on the mid price. - Message: `CHART:{epic}:TICK` - Interface: IG Streaming API - Group: Charts - Status: verified. Source: [labs.ig.com](https://labs.ig.com/streaming-api-reference.html), checked 2026-10-12. This is a subscription of the IG Streaming API, not an HTTP endpoint. It has no method and no path: it travels over a Lightstreamer connection that stays open, which a Lightstreamer client library manages. It is in no OpenAPI file on this site and the request builder does not list it. ## The message - Name: `CHART:{epic}:TICK` - Direction: Subscription, opened by the client and then fed by the server - Subscribed to as: `CHART:{epic}:TICK`, in the mode `DISTINCT` - Carried by: Lightstreamer. IG's Streaming API Guide (labs.ig.com/streaming-api-guide.html), opened the same day, says the server address is the Lightstreamer address returned by the REST /session call and should not be hard coded, that the user is the active account identifier, and that the password is built from the CST and X-SECURITY-TOKEN tokens of the REST session. It gives 40 as the default number of simultaneous subscriptions on one connection. ## Fields - `BID` (type not stated, optional): The bid price. - `OFR` (type not stated, optional): The offer price. - `LTP` (type not stated, optional): The last traded price. - `LTV` (type not stated, optional): The last traded volume. - `TTV` (type not stated, optional): The incremental trading volume. - `UTM` (type not stated, optional): The time of the update, in milliseconds since the Unix epoch. - `DAY_OPEN_MID` (type not stated, optional): The mid open price for the day. - `DAY_NET_CHG_MID` (type not stated, optional): The change from the open to now, on the mid price. - `DAY_PERC_CHG_MID` (type not stated, optional): The change over the day as a percentage, on the mid price. - `DAY_HIGH` (type not stated, optional): The high of the day, on the mid price. - `DAY_LOW` (type not stated, optional): The low of the day, on the mid price. ## Limits that apply at IG - Historical price data points a week: 10,000 data points per week - Scope: Per account, price history endpoints only - Status: verified. Source: [labs.ig.com](https://labs.ig.com/faq.html), checked 2026-10-12. - Non trading requests a minute: 30 requests per minute - Scope: Per account, non trading calls only - Status: verified. Source: [labs.ig.com](https://labs.ig.com/faq.html), checked 2026-10-12. - Non trading requests a minute: 60 requests per minute - Scope: Per application, that is per API key, non trading calls only - Status: verified. Source: [labs.ig.com](https://labs.ig.com/faq.html), checked 2026-10-12. - Concurrent streaming subscriptions: 40 subscriptions - Scope: Per streaming connection - Status: verified. Source: [labs.ig.com](https://labs.ig.com/faq.html), checked 2026-10-12. - Corroborated by [labs.ig.com/streaming-api-guide.html](https://labs.ig.com/streaming-api-guide.html) - Trading requests a minute: 100 requests per minute - Scope: Per account, trading calls only - Sources conflict: [ig.com](https://www.ig.com/en/trading-platforms/trading-apis/how-to-use-ig-api) states around 40 trade requests per minute, checked 2026-10-05. IG's own pages disagree. The conflict is labelled, not resolved. Pace against 40. - Status: conflicting. Source: [labs.ig.com](https://labs.ig.com/faq.html), checked 2026-10-12. ## Related IG Streaming messages: Charts - [CHART:{epic}:{scale}](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/ig/messages/chart-candle): Consolidated candle data for one market at one scale. The scale is SECOND, 1MINUTE, 5MINUTE or HOUR, and each update carries the open, high, low and close of the candle for the bid, the offer and the last traded price. ## More on IG - [All IG messages](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/ig/messages): 5 documented here, grouped by what they do. - [IG API quickstart](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/ig/quickstart) - [All IG error codes](https://openbrokerapi.com/errors/ig) - [IG API page](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/ig): The full record: access, authentication, limits and the source for each. ## Licence and how to cite The records behind this page are all rights reserved. This file is the page itself, at its own address, in another format. It is not part of the CC BY 4.0 downloads listed at https://openbrokerapi.com/data. Quote from it with a link to the page. Cite as: IG Streaming CHART:{epic}:TICK. Broker API Hub, https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/ig/messages/chart-tick, newest check 2026-10-12. Where you rely on a single figure, cite the source and the checked date printed beside it as well. Where this page and a broker's own documentation differ, the documentation wins.