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Not investment advice. Educational chart vocabulary only. Data source: schematic / illustrative. Delay: N/A (not live) · or labeled stub / Coming Soon. FAKE MONEY practice. Not a buy/sell alert.

Delayed educational marks — chart vocabulary

Not investment advice. Educational chart vocabulary only. This page does not tell you to buy, sell, or hold anything. Delayed marks on the Lab are for literacy practice with fake balances — not live trading, not alerts, not broker quotes you should act on. Markets involve risk of loss. Delayed or incomplete data can be wrong. Voltron Trading Lab is not a broker, advisor, or exchange.

Data source: When a mark appears on Mock / Charts, the screen must name the vendor or feed (or “Lab schematic / stub” if none).

Delay: Approximate latency must appear next to the mark (e.g. ~15–20 min · end-of-day · exchange delay · “example only” · “Coming Soon — no live chain”).

Practice context: FAKE MONEY only.

Operator desk / Amazon Associates experiment: thevoltron.com.

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Why “delayed” matters

A mark is just a displayed last / mid / reference price the Lab shows for education. “Delayed” means the number is not guaranteed real-time.

You might seePlain meaning
LastMost recent trade the feed reported (may be stale)
Bid / askIndicative quotes from the feed’s rules — definitions vary by vendor
Mark / midA reference the Lab uses for paper P&L — still FAKE MONEY

On this site, marks teach how panels are labeled. They do not authorize an order in the real world.

Label rule (every chart or quote chip)

Every educational mark block should show, in plain text:

  1. Source — who provided the number (or “schematic / not a live feed”)
  2. Delay — how stale it is allowed to be
  3. Context — FAKE MONEY practice · Not investment advice

If any of those three is missing, treat the number as a drawing, not a quote.

Related hub: How to read a chart · What a candle is · Volume as context

Multi-asset stubs (…16k) — futures · FX · bonds

The practice hub may show doors for futures, forex, and cash bonds. Those doors are vocabulary / FAKE MONEY stub practice. We do not invent live futures chains, live FX books, or a cash-bond inventory.

Desk stubWhat a “mark” may mean hereRequired label extras
FuturesContract last / settle-style reference if a delayed edu feed exists later; until then schematic or “no live chain”Name contract / month if shown · source + delay · FAKE MONEY · not a broker quote
Forex (FX)Pair mid / indicative print if delayed edu marks appear; until then stub / Coming Soon labelingName pair · pip/point is vocabulary only · source + delay · not executable FX
BondsBond ETF stub marks (if any) vs cash bonds Coming SoonSay ETF stub vs cash bond · source + delay · no invented bond inventory

Hard rules for stubs

  [ MULTI-ASSET EDU STUB ]
  Desk: Futures | FX | Bonds
  Mark: ####.##   OR  “Coming Soon — no live chain”
  Source: <vendor | Lab stub | none>
  Delay: <latency | N/A>
  Practice: FAKE MONEY · Not investment advice

Caption: Layout example only. Data source: none. Delay: N/A. Do not trade from this box.

Schematic (equities / general — not live)

  [ EDUCATIONAL MARK ]
  Last: ####.##
  Source: <vendor or "Lab stub">
  Delay: ~15–20 min (example)
  Practice: FAKE MONEY only

Caption: Layout example only. Data source: none. Delay: N/A. Do not trade from this box.

How this ties to Mock unlocks

Tutor’s path gates already point chart literacy here:

…16k multi-asset desks should deep-link this page (or Tutor what-is-* pages) for mark literacy — XP = learning, never profit bragging.

What this page deliberately does not do

Practice desk: /mock/ — FAKE MONEY only.

Quick self-check

  1. Can you explain delayed vs real-time without recommending a trade?
  2. Can you refuse to trust a mark that lacks source + delay?
  3. Can you tell futures / FX / bond stubs from live broker quotes?
  4. Can you say: Lab marks are for fake-money literacy; past ≠ future?

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