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StratAlerts is a real-time market scanner built around The Strat methodology by Rob Smith (RIP, king). It continuously monitors stocks across the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, major futures contracts, and crypto pairs — detecting actionable setups as they develop, framing them with Timeframe Continuity context, and delivering live alerts to your browser or mobile device. The goal is to keep you focused on what is triggering right now rather than manually scanning dozens of charts and guessing at market conditions.

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The Strat in brief

The Strat is a rule-based trading methodology built on universal candle scenarios. Every candle on every timeframe receives one of four state IDs:
  • 1 — Inside bar. The candle’s high and low are contained within the prior candle’s range.
  • 2U — Bullish outside. The candle breaks above the prior candle’s high.
  • 2D — Bearish outside. The candle breaks below the prior candle’s low.
  • 3 — Outside bar. The candle breaks both the prior high and the prior low.
Setups are expressed as three-candle sequences written as target candle → trigger candle → current candle, for example, 2-1-2U or 3-2-2D. The trigger candle defines the level you are watching, and the current candle indicates whether it has been broken. Timeframe Continuity (TFC) describes how aligned multiple timeframes are in the same direction. When the monthly, weekly, daily, and intraday candles are all printing 2U states, the environment is fully bullish, and setups in that direction carry higher conviction. StratAlerts automatically calculates and surfaces the TFC context for every instrument tracked.

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Key features

Mission Control

Your primary dashboard. Mission Control combines the real-time alerts stream, simultaneous breaks panel, setups feed, and market breadth data in one command center.

Setups feed

A filterable, sortable grid of every active setup across your scanned universe. View TFC state, candle IDs, in-force flags, PMGs, and setup shape all in one surface.

Simultaneous breaks

Catch coordinated moves when multiple instruments break the same level at the same time. Simultaneous breaks often signal that a move is broadening beyond a single symbol.

Alerts stream

See live alerts the moment they trigger, complete with timeframe and setup context. Every alert links directly to the relevant instrument view.

Push notifications

Receive setup and simultaneous break alerts on your phone through Pushover or Telegram, even when you are away from the desk.

Sectors

Monitor SPDR sector breadth from XLB through XLY and drill into every ticker’s daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly candle state in one compact view.

Watchlists

Organize high-conviction names into custom lists with multi-timeframe chart context always one click away.

Market breadth

Read directional participation by timeframe so you know whether conditions are broad or narrow before sizing into a trade.

Earnings

Keep the earnings calendar alongside your setups feed. Filter by reporting window and importance so high-impact dates surface before the setup is already in motion.

AI Tools

Pre-compiled JSON market bundles are refreshed every five minutes, ready to feed directly into GPT, Claude, and other AI workflows.

Strategy Builder

Build automated strategies that execute on setup outcomes. Route through the internal paper engine, Alpaca for stocks, or TopstepX, Tradovate, or Rithmic for futures — with bracket orders, trailing stops, and real-time position sync.

Execution guardrails

Pause automated entries globally or per market, set safety breakers for daily loss and order rate, and let paused markets auto-resume at the next session open.

API access

Low-latency REST endpoints and WebSocket streams for building custom integrations, execution systems, or your own front-end dashboards.

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Multi-asset coverage

StratAlerts scans across three asset classes simultaneously:
  • Stocks — S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 components
  • Futures — Major equity index, commodity, and currency futures contracts
  • Crypto — Leading cryptocurrency pairs
All instruments are processed through the same setup detection engine, so you can monitor and compare signals across asset classes in a single session.

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Getting help

Click the ? button in the desktop navbar — between the universe picker and theme toggle — for quick access to What’s New, Help, Documentation, and Feedback. You can also press ? on your keyboard to open the shortcuts modal.

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Keyboard shortcuts

The most-used shortcuts:
KeyDestination
/Quick Search
MMission Control
SSetups Table
AAlerts
BSimultaneous Breaks
WWatchlists
QAI Search

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Mobile support

The core workflow is usable on a mobile screen. You can check active setups, review watchlists, monitor the alerts stream, and track the earnings calendar from your phone. Push notifications through Pushover and Telegram extend that reach further — alerts reach you even when the app is not open.
StratAlerts is a scanner with built-in strategy execution. It surfaces signals and context, and the Strategy Builder lets you run strategies through the internal paper engine or route orders through connected broker accounts (Alpaca for stocks; TopstepX, Tradovate, or Rithmic for futures). Execution guardrails provide safety controls to manage risk across all accounts.