Trading alerts worth waking up for
A trading alert is worth waking up for only if it names the symbol, the price, and the rule that fired. This guide keeps one week of Signal-style alerts, including the one that should have been ignored because the quote was missing.
Three alerts, one of them a skip
Monday: NML traded above 42.10, the price written in the rule the night before. Tuesday: HRB printed volume at twice its prior-month average. Thursday: GLS fired with no quote attached. The third alert is the one that decides whether the product is serious. Signal Orchard's journal, in that review, keeps the skip. A product that deletes the bad alert before you see it is hiding the test.
A rule you can say out loud
The Monday rule is one sentence: notify me if NML prints above 42.10. It does not say "if momentum improves." If you cannot read the rule back, you cannot tell whether the alert was wrong. Chartloom is where you look at the average after the alert. The alert itself should not require the chart to be intelligible. We would not pay $39 a month for a bell that needs a second product to mean anything, which is why the price and the symbol have to be in the row.
The week you ignore
If you will not act on a rule, do not arm it overnight. Twenty armed rules produce a morning you will mute, and the mute is how you miss the one row that named a price. This guide is not a set of rules for your account. It is the standard for the row: symbol, price, rule, and a place to mark skip.
Symbol, price, rule, skip
Monday was NML above 42.10. Tuesday was HRB at twice the volume. Thursday was GLS with no quote, marked skip. If the product deletes Thursday, it is not this guide's product. If you arm twenty rules, you will mute the phone, and the mute is how Thursday gets lost. One sentence per rule. No sentence that says momentum improved.
Chartloom shows the average after the alert. The alert still has to stand alone. $39 for a bell that needs a second subscription to mean anything is the wrong purchase.
Friday, added, so the week is a week
Monday: NML above 42.10, rule as written, alert kept. Tuesday: HRB at twice the prior-month volume, alert kept. Wednesday: nothing, journal empty, which we kept as empty. Thursday: GLS with no quote, marked skip, row kept. Friday: NML back under 42.10, no rule armed for that direction, so no alert, and we did not add a rule after the fact to make the journal look busy. Five days, three alerts, one of them a skip. If a product deletes Thursday, it is not this guide's product. If you arm twenty rules, you will mute the phone, and the mute is how Thursday gets lost.
Chartloom can show the average after Monday's alert. The alert still has to stand alone, with the symbol and the price. $39 for a bell that needs a second subscription to mean anything is the wrong purchase. Signal Orchard's export is time, symbol, rule, and skip. Mintcanopy will not accept a push notification with no rule as a substitute for that file.
The mute
Twenty armed rules produce a morning you will mute. The mute is how Thursday's GLS row, the one with no quote, gets lost. One sentence per rule, written the night before, is the cap this guide recommends. No sentence that says momentum improved. Friday's move back under 42.10 does not get a rule added after the fact. Mintcanopy would rather an empty Wednesday and a quiet Friday than a journal that looks busy. Signal Orchard keeps the skip. A product that deletes it is not the product this guide is about. The export is time, symbol, rule, and skip.
A week you can read back
Monday, NML at or above 42.10, rule written Sunday, alert kept. Tuesday, HRB at twice the prior-month volume, alert kept. Wednesday, no rule fired, journal empty. Thursday, GLS with no quote, row kept and marked skip. Friday, NML back under 42.10, no new rule added after the fact. Twenty rules would have produced a mute, and the mute would have lost Thursday. Mintcanopy wants the export of time, symbol, rule, and skip. A push with no rule is not that file. Chartloom can explain Monday's cross afterward. The alert still has to stand alone.
Do not repair Friday
NML under 42.10 on Friday does not earn a rule written after the move. Wednesday stays empty. Thursday's GLS row stays, marked skip, with no quote. Monday and Tuesday are the easy alerts, 42.10 and twice the volume. Mintcanopy treats a mute caused by twenty rules as the way Thursday disappears. The file is time, symbol, rule, and skip. A bell that needs Chartloom before it means anything is the wrong $39.
A rule that fits in one breath
NML at or above 42.10. HRB volume at twice last month. GLS if it prints, and if it prints without a price the row stays as a skip. That is a week, with Wednesday empty and Friday left alone when the price fell back through 42.10. Mintcanopy can read those sentences aloud. A rule that needs the words momentum or improved cannot be checked against a tape. Twenty such rules become a mute, and the mute deletes Thursday without looking like a deletion. Signal Orchard is the product that keeps the skip in the CSV. The chart of the cross is Chartloom, priced separately, and not required for the alert to be intelligible.