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Every page, feature, and risk control — explained in plain English. The same docs our members use, open for anyone to read.

Your Pages

The Alerts Tracker is a searchable record of every alert the platform has published — across every strategy that's currently running, going back as far as the records do. You'll find it in the sidebar under Trade.

It is the one page on the site that is not about your account.

The Alerts Tracker: filter bar above a table of every alert, newest first

Alerts, not your trades

This is the single most important thing to understand about the page, and it trips people up.

Everywhere else in the portal — Live Trades, Trade History, your P&L — you are looking at what your bot did with your money. The Alerts Tracker is looking at the signals themselves: what was called, when, and what the contract did afterwards, regardless of whether you took the trade, what size you used, or where your stop was.

So the numbers here will not match your history, and they aren't supposed to:

  • An alert can show +180% while your own trade on it closed −30%, because your stop came out first and the contract carried on running afterwards.
  • An alert appears here even if your strategy skipped it — because you'd hit your daily trade limit, or your killswitch was on, or the alert failed one of your Alert Quality Filters.
  • An alert appears here for strategies you don't subscribe to at all.

Think of it as the scoreboard for the signals. Your own results live on Trade History.

Tip

If you want the alert and your own trade side by side, that's what Detail View on the Trades page is for. This page is for studying the alerts in bulk.

The table

Alerts are listed newest first. Every column header is clickable to re-sort.

  • Alert Time — when the signal fired, in your own timezone.
  • Symbol — the contract that was called.
  • Strategy — a coloured pill naming the strategy that called it.
  • Dir / Spread — CALL, PUT, or the spread type for multi-leg alerts.
  • Entry and Exit — the price the alert was quoted at, and the price it was closed at if the strategy published an exit.
  • Exit Time — when that close was published.
  • Peak % — the best the contract ever got after the alert. This is the headline number on the page.
  • High and Low — the highest and lowest it traded.
  • Max DD — the worst it dipped against you before doing whatever it did next.
  • Status — Active or Closed.
  • Outcome — Win, Loss or Breakeven.
  • Shot — a camera icon if the strategy published a chart with the alert. Click it to view.

Note

Peak % is the best the contract ever reached — not what anybody walked away with. An alert with a 300% peak that finished at zero still shows a 300% peak. It answers "did this call ever offer a profit," which is a different question from "what did it make."

The contract detail columns

Past Max DD the table keeps going, with seventeen more columns describing the option and the market at the exact moment the alert fired. They're what turn this page from a log into a research tool.

The contract itself:

  • Delta — how much the option moves per $1 of the underlying.
  • IV — implied volatility; roughly, how expensive the option was.
  • OI — open interest, how many contracts already existed.
  • Day Vol — how many changed hands that day.
  • P/C — the put/call ratio on that underlying.
  • Vol/OI — volume against open interest; a rough read on whether the action was fresh.
  • Spread — how wide the bid-ask was. A wide spread costs you real money on entry and exit.

The market around it (see Market Sentiment for what these scores mean):

  • Conviction, Sentiment, Community, Technicals, Consensus
  • RVOL 15m / 1h / 4h / Pre — relative volume over each window. Above 1.0 means the underlying was busier than usual.
  • Earn Days — days until that company reports earnings. A small number is a warning.

Filtering

The filter bar across the top narrows the table. Ticker and Strategy let you pick several at once; Direction, Status and Outcome are single choices; From and To set a date range. A Clear button appears once anything is set and tells you how many filters are active.

Underneath is Metric filters, collapsed by default. Open it and every one of the seventeen detail columns gets a min and max box. This is where the page earns its keep — it lets you ask real questions of the record.

Example

You suspect thin contracts are what's costing you. Set Spread max to 0.05 and note the win rate in the Breakdowns below. Then set Spread min to 0.20 and look again. If the wide-spread group is dramatically worse, you've found something worth acting on in your Alert Quality Filters.

Everything below the table — the breakdowns and the time-of-day chart — recalculates against whatever you've filtered to.

Alerts that share a contract

When several strategies call the same contract in the same minute, those rows collapse into a single line with the strategy pills stacked side by side and a ×3 count. Click it to expand into one row per strategy.

It keeps the table honest. Three strategies calling the same SPY put at 10:31 is one idea, not three, and reading it as three would triple-count that call in every breakdown below.

Which strategies appear

The Strategy filter lists the strategies that are live right now, and the table only ever shows their alerts. Three kinds of name are deliberately left out, so what you can pick is always something you can actually follow:

  • Strategies that have been retired. Once a strategy stops running it drops off the page rather than sitting in the dropdown looking available.
  • "Full" versions of a strategy. Some strategies have an unfiltered twin — "RVS Strategy Full" alongside "RVS Strategy" — that fires on every raw signal before the quality rules are applied. They aren't separately available, and counting them would double up nearly the same trades in every breakdown below.
  • Competition entrants, unless the caller has since published a listing — see the next section.

Note

Leaving a retired strategy out doesn't erase anything you already have. Your own trades on it stay on Trade History exactly as they were.

The Challenge tag

A muted Challenge tag beside a strategy pill means that alert was called during a Shot Caller Challenge — under that event's rules, before the caller's paid listing existed — and has since been folded into that listing's public record.

It's there so you can weigh the trade for what it is. Competition calls were made under a contract cap with no subscribers on them, so they aren't identical to what you'd have been able to take. The same tag appears on the same trades on the caller's Marketplace page, so the two pages can never tell you different stories about one caller.

Note

Alerts from competition entrants who haven't published a listing don't appear here at all. While a competition is running, entrants shouldn't be able to watch each other's live calls.

Futures alerts

If everything on screen is futures, a note appears and the page changes shape: the seventeen option columns disappear (a futures contract has no delta or open interest), prices are shown as index levels, and Peak and Max DD switch to ticks.

That last one matters. A futures alert's percentage is a percentage of the index level, so a genuinely good winner reads as something like "0.41%" and looks like nothing. Ticks describe what actually happened. Hover any Peak or Max DD cell for the same move in points and in dollars per contract — for both the mini and the micro.

Breakdowns

Below the table, the same filtered set of alerts is aggregated three ways.

By strategy and By underlying give you, for each group: how many alerts, the win rate, the average / median / best peak, the average drawdown, then the same split out for Calls and Puts separately, and finally the realized figures for alerts that actually closed — closed count, win rate, average return and average hold time.

The Breakdowns section, aggregating the filtered alerts by strategy and by underlying

Three controls sit above them:

  • Min alerts — hides groups with too few alerts to mean anything. Starts at 5.
  • Min peak % for win — the bar a peak has to clear to count as a win here. This is your definition for this page, and everything recalculates when you change it.
  • Blacklist candidates only — narrows to the groups worth worrying about.

A marks any group that has enough alerts to judge and a win rate under 35%. Nothing is ever hidden by these controls — a group below your peak threshold counts as a loss rather than vanishing.

Example

Set Min peak % for win to 30. The By underlying table shows a strategy's TSLA alerts at 62% and its NFLX alerts at 21% with a ⚠ across 14 alerts. That's a concrete reason to add NFLX to that strategy's ticker blacklist — and you found it in about a minute.

By time of day buckets the same alerts by hour, in your timezone, with a bar for each. Switch what the bars measure between Avg Peak %, Win %, Avg Return % and Alert count.

Example

A source's 9:30–10:00 bucket averages a 48% peak across 60 alerts while its 14:00 bucket averages 9% across 55. Tightening that strategy's Trading Hours to the morning is a change you can make in two clicks — and this is the page that told you to.

Keeping it current

The header shows when the table was last loaded. Tick Auto to refresh it every minute, or press Refresh whenever you like. At the bottom you can page through the results and choose 25, 50, 100 or 200 rows at a time.

Warning

Everything on this page is history, not a recommendation. A strategy with a brilliant record on the tracker can still lose money for you if your sizing, your stop or your trading hours don't suit it. Use the Backtest page to check what a change would have done to your account before you make it.