An open market is not the same as an arriving quote
The site's status considers both the market session and recent data updates. A market can be open while its data has stopped arriving. Conversely, showing the final close after the session ends is different from a communication failure. LIVE, DELAYED and CLOSED help distinguish these situations.
The site receives market information, organizes display values and history on its server, then delivers them to your browser. Charts update as data arrives, but instruments do not all move at the same interval. An update can carry an unchanged price, and some data is published less frequently. Read the status and the price movement separately rather than concluding that an unmoving chart means a closure or failure.
LIVE is not a guarantee of zero latency
LIVE means the market is considered open and the instrument meets its recent-update conditions. Being inside trading hours alone is not enough: reception is also checked. It does not promise that every exchange trade appears immediately or that the information has no latency. Recently received information can itself carry a time lag.
Do not use this label as a substitute for an executable order price or execution confirmation. Data characteristics and update frequency differ across instruments, so a rapidly moving chart beside a slower one is not by itself evidence of a fault. When a price jumps, inspect status and the time range to help distinguish market movement from an update arriving late.
Distinguish DELAYED from CLOSED
DELAYED appears when recent-update requirements are not met during an expected session, or when an open state cannot be sufficiently established. It is not a fixed claim such as exactly 15 minutes late. The underlying timestamp may lag or updates may have been interrupted. A price remaining on screen should not automatically be treated as the market's current price.
CLOSED generally reflects session timing or a holiday closure. Keeping the last value and chart helps you review the completed session. A regular stock marked CLOSED can sit beside an after-hours instrument marked LIVE. Even within the 24h category, individual instruments can have pauses, so the category name does not guarantee continuous LIVE status.
Missing history is not an unchanged price
History can contain isolated points or gaps because it has not yet arrived, is published infrequently, or trading has paused. Japan's 10-year government bond yield can have discontinuous history. Read the observations available rather than inventing a path across a gap. Missing lines do not establish that a price stayed flat.
When you switch tabs, prefetched display data can be shown while new updates arrive. If there is not enough material to draw a chart, you may see a connecting or loading message. This describes preparation of the display, not a market closure. If it persists, check your device's connection and reload. If the problem continues, include the instrument and the time in a contact message to make it easier to investigate.
Display behavior checked on October 4, 2026. Examples are illustrative, not investment advice. See the disclaimer.