 One-sided bound criterion for a martingale clock

A continuous local martingale bounded above pathwise throughout a stochastic time interval cannot have infinite quadratic variation at that interval's endpoint. The Dambis-Dubins-Schwarz theorem represents it as Brownian motion at its quadratic-variation clock; an infinite clock would force unbounded oscillations. Its clock therefore has a finite limit, and so does the martingale. A bound below gives the same conclusion by changing sign. The bound may be random; it must hold over the entire interval.