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A price can stay unchanged while the source confirms it repeatedly. A useful odds feed preserves both the price-change clock and the confirmation clock.

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Follow three clocks

Suppose a source price changes at 12:00, is successfully confirmed at 12:03, and is delivered to an application at 12:03:02. The change age is three minutes. Confirmation age is two seconds. Delivery time describes transport to the consumer. Treating change age as freshness would mark this unchanged price as old. Treating delivery time as source freshness would make a delayed replay appear new. Keep the clocks attached to the original evidence.

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Use explicit state

A subsequent suspension must fence the preceding active quote. Consumers should not replace unavailable or suspended evidence with an older price because it looks complete.

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Build the decision into your application

Read age and state alongside the price, handle missing reasons, and preserve original timestamps in history. A retained range shows recorded prices. Continuous coverage requires separate measurement. See data conventions, historical prices, and comparison checks. The no-vig calculator can demonstrate arithmetic independently of a live feed.