What a trading signal is, and how an alert differs
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A signal is one moment: a candle closed, and the rule you wrote became true. An alert is that moment reaching you.
You will see both words across the app, and they are not interchangeable. One is the event in the market. The other is the message about it. Your signals feed keeps every signal your active strategies produce, whether or not a message went out for it.
Nobody at Caliente picks anything. There is no analyst, no call, no setup of the day. Your condition happened, and we tell you it happened.
What an alert says
Three lines. The first carries the direction, the pair and the price, because on a phone that line is often all you see before you decide whether to open it. The second names your strategy and the exact condition that fired. If a stop-loss closed the position rather than your exit rule, it says so instead of naming an indicator that had no part in it. The third is a link straight to the strategy.
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Where signals come from
A job runs every five minutes and checks the closed candles for each active strategy's pair and timeframe. Entry rule if you are flat, exit rule if you are holding.
Only closed candles are ever read. The candle still forming is ignored, which is why a signal that fired stays fired and never moves or vanishes later.
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Caliente Signals is an alert tool, not an investment advisor. Nothing on this page is financial advice, and past performance is not indicative of future results.