An alert is a sentence Palanor checks every hour against the data it stores: "10-Year Treasury crosses above 5%". When it holds, you hear about it in the bell, and by email or on your phone if you asked.
What you can watch
- Level. A signal crosses a line, or prints above or below it.
- Change. A signal moves a set percent or amount within a window (a day, a week, 30 days, a year).
- Unusual move. A reading sits a chosen number of standard deviations from its own 90-day, one-year or five-year average.
- Record. A record high or low in the stored history, or the highest (lowest) reading in a chosen number of years. Palanor computes this from the stored series; it is never typed in.
- Release. An economic release on the calendar lands above, below or away from the prior print. The calendar carries the prior print, not a consensus forecast, so a surprise here means distance from the last print.
- Forecast level and revision. Palanor Foresight™ starts to see a line crossed within your horizon, or changes its view of a date by a set percent. Foresight is read once a day with the signal's own policy applied, so a series Foresight holds at its last value never fires.
- News. The news board ties a new story to a signal.
- Filings. A new Form D, S-1 or 8-K matches a company name, a state, an SIC code, an 8-K event or (Form D) an amount sold.
- Layoff notices. A new WARN notice in the Layoff Tracker from a company, a state or an industry you follow, or one that matches a tracker view you saved. You can also set a smallest number of workers. Start one from a company page, a row in the tracker, or Follow on a filtered view.
- Layoff measures. Any new notice with at least a chosen number of workers, or the workers due to be laid off in the next 90 days in a state rising more than a set percent above their 13-week average. The second is read once a day and fires when it crosses your line, not every day it stays above.
Everything in one list
The Alerts center also lists the alerts you set elsewhere: thresholds from a signal page, Study rules, a Study's chart, charts you follow, saved screens in the Entity Screener and Markets sectors you follow. They keep working as before, and the same switches apply to all of them.
Pause, snooze and mute
- Pause stops a rule from checking until you resume it.
- Snooze quiets a rule for an hour, a day, a week or 30 days.
- Mute keeps a rule watching and logs what it saw to History, without a sound.
Before you save
For signal rules, the preview runs the same check over the last year of readings and tells you how often it would have fired. If the number is large, widen the line or lengthen the cooldown.
Quiet hours and limits
In Settings you choose quiet hours, the most alerts you want in an hour and in a day, and how email arrives (as alerts fire, in a daily or weekly digest, or never). During quiet hours and past your limits, alerts still reach the bell; email waits and arrives as one bundle afterwards, and the phone stays silent.
History
History lists what your alerts sent in the last 90 days and how each reached you: emailed, held for quiet hours, held by your limit, or logged silently while muted.
Keyboard
j and k move, Enter opens, e edits, p pauses, s then 1 to 4 snoozes, m mutes, x twice deletes, n starts a new alert, / filters. ? shows the keys. From any command bar, type ALERTS to open the center or ALERT followed by a signal to start a rule.
Credits
Alerts are part of the platform. Checking them never uses credits.