Alerts tab
An alert watches the market and goes off when your condition is met. On its own it messages you. Attached to workflows or triggers, it decides when they run.
Each alert in the list says what it saw the last time it went off, short, and when: GAMMA wall moved: 768.0 → 770.0 · Today 2:20 PM ET. One that has never gone off says so. Press an alert to open its page.
An alert's page
- At the top: its name, the stock, Watching (or paused), and Last went off, with each value it saw then in a box of its own.
- One sentence on what this alert fires on, from its own settings.
- What it watches: the kind, the stock and what sets it off.
- When: the days and hours it watches, and whether it fires once when the window opens.
- When it goes off: each workflow it runs (with Open), the triggers it turns on, and anything else it does.
- Recent fires: the charts sent with each time it went off, when there are any.
Making an alert
Click New alert to open the builder. It walks you through: what kind of alert, which stock, what to match, filters, an optional time window, and what happens when it goes off.
Kinds of alert
| Kind | Watches for |
|---|---|
| Price level cross | The stock crossing a price you set. |
| Contract price cross | One option's price crossing a level. |
| Greek exposure move | The "wall" (the strike with the most dealer exposure) moving to a new strike, or the price crossing a flip level, a strike where that Greek's exposure changes sign. You choose which. This is the only alert that measures exposure. |
| Price near greeks | The stock PRICE getting close to a Greek wall, or crossing to the other side of it. Never about the exposure's sign. |
| Options flow | Unusual trades on a stock (you set the size). |
| Top 20 flow / New top flow (no ticker) | Unusual trades across the whole market. |
| Volume spike / Top-volume contract rotation | A jump in volume, or the most active contract changing. |
| Options ratio | Calls against puts, on open interest (checked once a day) or on the day's unusual flow (checked every hour). Goes off when the side in the lead flips, or leads by the amount you set. |
| Technicals | One indicator crossing another, like the price over the 200 EMA. |
| My trigger acts | Goes off when one of your triggers enters, exits, pauses or is deleted. |
What counts as a move
Greek exposure move and Price near greeks each ask what should set them off, because the same wall can be watched in more than one way.
On Greek exposure move: Wall moves to a new strike (the default) is the wall shifting to a new price. Positive wall and Negative wall follow only one side: every exposure chart marks two, purple for the biggest positive exposure and yellow for the biggest negative. Price crosses into negative exposure (or into positive, or a flip level either way) is the gamma flip: going up the strikes, a flip level is a strike whose exposure has the other sign to the one below it, and the alert goes off when the PRICE crosses one, from a strike with positive exposure to one with negative. A strike changing sign while the price stands still does not set it off. Any move or flip takes whichever comes first.
The two alerts use one vocabulary, and the subject is always named. A wall is one STRIKE. A flip level is where the exposure changes sign along the strikes. Price is PRICE. Only Greek exposure move measures exposure: if you want the price to move into positive gamma, that is *Price crosses into positive exposure*, and no setting on any other alert does it.
On Price near greeks: Price gets near it is the original proximity band. Price crosses up through it / down through it go off when the price moves to the other side of the wall. That is the stock price crossing a level, not the Greek's sign changing. To watch a fixed price be crossed instead, use Price level cross.
Neither one goes off just because it starts on that side. It needs a real crossing between two checks, so Price crosses down through it set while the price is already below the wall waits for it to go above and come back down.
Does an overnight move count?
Every one of these alerts has this tick box, and it is off by default — meaning a move that happened while the market was shut still counts, and you hear about it on the first check after the open. Turn it on to count only moves during one session; the first check of each day then simply gets it ready again.
Two things worth knowing either way. If you do not pin an expiry, the alert follows the nearest one, which becomes a new contract each day — that changeover is never reported as a move. And Top 20 flow and New top flow compare against yesterday's board, so with this off they report the whole leaderboard as new every morning.
Common fields
- Stock, the symbol to watch (not needed for whole market flow alerts).
- When it goes off, also: Send a DM when it fires, Run workflows (pick one or several) and Turn on trading triggers (pick one or several).
- Active from / Active until, in Eastern time, makes the watch window smaller.
- Cooldown between fires, the least time between two messages.
- Delete after, a time when the alert is deleted, whether it is on or paused. Blank keeps it until you delete it.
The list shows Active alerts first (on, even outside their hours), then Paused ones, and each says Deletes on when it has a time.
To limit how many times an alert can drive a trade in a day, set Max runs per day on the workflow's Schedule step.
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