What an alert tells you, and when it fires
An alert is the app telling you that, on one market, the last of your required conditions has just become true. This guide covers the exact moment that happens, why you do not get the same alert again every candle, and what the notification carries so you can read it without opening a chart.
The moment it fires
Every condition reads a timeframe, and a timeframe's candle closes on a schedule. When a candle closes, the conditions that read that timeframe are re-evaluated. If that evaluation is the one where the last required condition turns true — the strategy goes from not satisfied to satisfied — an alert fires. It is stamped with the close of the bar that did it, not the second the server noticed.
That is the whole rule. It is the transition that matters. A market that already satisfied your strategy when you applied it does not alert, because nothing has just happened; it is the baseline. A market that stays satisfied for the next six hours does not alert six times, because it never stopped being true.
Why one setup does not fire again and again
A condition sitting on its own threshold — RSI oscillating either side of 30, say — is a genuine crossing on every other candle, and so a genuine transition each time. Left alone, that is a notification every few minutes. So once a strategy drops out of being satisfied on a market, it must stay out for five closes of its fastest timeframe before it can alert on that market again. Counted in bars rather than minutes, so a strategy on the 4-hour and one on the 5-minute each get a quiet period that suits their own pace. The first alert a strategy ever fires on a market is never held back.
The honest cost is that a second genuine setup inside that short window is lost. The judgement is that a second crossing arriving before the first has cleared is far more often the same event reported twice.
What arrives on your phone
The market, the strategy, the direction it trades, and every condition with its value at the moment it fired. The point is that you can see why it fired and decide whether the reason is one you still believe in, without reconstructing it from a chart.
Open chart takes you to that market on the timeframe the alert was evaluated on, with the conditions drawn and the firing bar marked. The conditions are drawn from the alert's own record, so editing the strategy afterwards never changes what an older alert shows.
Alert hours
You choose the window in which pushes may reach your phone — 06:00 to 21:00, say, or a window across midnight if you trade a different session. Outside it nothing is sent to the phone. The alerts still fire and are still recorded, so nothing is missed: they are waiting on Today when you next look, and the app says on screen while it is holding pushes back.
A common confusion
"The ranking shows 100% but I never got an alert." Usually one of two things. The market already satisfied the strategy when you applied it, so there was no transition to report. Or the strategy includes an optional condition: the percentage counts every condition, but only the required ones decide an alert, and 100% on the screen means the required ones were already true before you were watching.
What an alert is not
It is not an instruction and not a prediction. It is a statement that your own conditions were met on a market at a stated time, with the readings that made it so. SixOne8 never places a trade, never connects to a broker, and never decides for you. What you do with the information is entirely yours.