Lately, I've been feeling like the on-chain data updates are "hanging" a bit. At first, I thought it was just my internet connection... but actually, many times it's the indexer/Subgraph chasing blocks, replaying, or queued up, so the frontend can only take the old snapshot for now; plus RPC rate limiting, when free nodes get busy, you get 429 errors or timeouts, making it seem like there's a sudden pause.

Thinking about it later, it's quite funny—everyone's watching the candlesticks and sentiment, but whether the pipelines underneath are clogged or not actually affects what you "see" in the world even more.
By the way, these days someone also tries to link ETF capital flows, US stock risk appetite, and crypto price movements together, but honestly, the data sources aren't necessarily from the same point in time, so don't take it too seriously.
My current approach is to switch to several different RPCs for key queries and verify on-chain data, preferring to be slower rather than being misled by fake "real-time" signals.