Glossary / Operations / Market suspension
A ParlayAPI glossary entry

Market suspension

A market suspension is a temporary state in which a live market stops accepting bets - prices are pulled because the book's risk engine cannot safely price the current moment: during a scoring play, an injury, a video review, or a burst of volatile action.

In practice

Suspensions are the rhythm of in-play betting: markets blink off during every drive-deciding play and reopen seconds later at repriced numbers. For programmatic consumers the operational rule is that absence of a price is information - a book pulling a market while others still quote it often front-runs a line move across the whole market.

Where it shows up in ParlayAPI

ParlayAPI's live feed reflects books pulling and reposting prices as it happens - with sub-5-second freshness on major sports, a suspension shows up as the price disappearing from that book's entry and returning repriced. Streaming delivery (WebSocket/SSE, Business tier and up - see pricing) is built for reacting to exactly these transitions; try the live demo.

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