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A signal is one condition on one instrument. There are nine kinds, an automation holds up to ten, and a Logic node joins them with AND or OR. No nesting: (A AND B) OR C means two automations.
Grid of the nine signal types against stocks, crypto, forex, and options, showing which combinations exist

Stocks get all nine; everything else a subset. Check before picking a ticker.

Every numeric signal ends in an operator, and picking Crosses Below (one-shot) over Goes Below (continuous) separates one alert from eighty. Read operators first.

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In plain English

A signal is a question Tradion asks once a minute: is RSI under 30 right now? Every signal has to answer yes at the same moment for a message to go out. Signals are independent, so Price AND RSI AND Insider Tx is a normal build — and mixing categories that way beats stacking two indicators that move together.

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1. Price level

Watches the last traded price, with an operator and your level. Use it when you already care about a number: a breakout point, a prior high, where your thesis stops being true. Every asset type.

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2. Technical indicator

Watches a calculated reading rather than raw price. The picker holds 92 entries across eight groups: 61 indicators and 31 candlestick patterns. Full list in technical indicators.
Period is how many bars feed the calculation. A moving average with period 50 is the average closing price of the last 50 bars, smoothing day-to-day noise so a trend is easier to see. The field disappears for indicators without one. A few take extra settings. MACD, a momentum reading built by comparing two moving averages, takes fast, slow, and signal periods — 12, 26, 9 by default. Bollinger Bands takes a standard deviation multiplier, default 2, drawing its bands where price has historically spent most of its time. SuperTrend, Keltner Channels, and Ichimoku have their own fields. Timeframe sets the bar size: daily is checked once a day at the close, intraday every 60 seconds. Use it when the setup is a reading rather than a level:
  • A golden cross — the 50-day average price crossing above the 200-day, widely read as a trend turning up.
  • RSI (Relative Strength Index) below 30. RSI scores how hard a stock has been pushed one way lately, 0 to 100, and below 30 is called oversold — sold down far enough that some traders expect a bounce. It fails in a strong downtrend.
  • ATR (Average True Range) rising. ATR is how far a stock typically travels in a day, so a rising ATR means bigger swings: rising volatility.
Pick a candlestick pattern and the operator locks to Equals (exact), firing when it appears on the latest bar.

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3. Volume

Watches how busy the symbol is compared with its own normal. The number you type is a multiple of the average, not a share count — 2 means twice as busy as usual. No operator; the check is always “above”. The average is taken from the 20 bars before the current one, so a live session is never counted into the baseline it’s being judged against. Use it when you want to know something is happening before you know what it is — unusual volume tends to arrive ahead of the news that explains it.
A symbol needs at least 11 bars of history before the average means anything. Below that the condition reports no average volume available and does not fire, which is what you want from a newly listed ticker or a young option contract.

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4. Daily change %

Watches today’s percentage move from the previous close, with an operator and a percentage. Use it when you want outsized moves without caring about the absolute price — including a gap, where a stock opens well away from its previous close.

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5. News

Fires when a new article is published for the symbol. No parameters at all — no keyword, sentiment, or source filter. The first check records a starting point, so it never fires on an article already published. Use it when you hold a position and want to know the moment anything is written about it. Add an Agent node to get the article summarised rather than announced.

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6. Earnings

Fires in the run-up to a scheduled earnings report. One parameter: how many days before, 1 to 90, default 7. Use it when you want a reminder to close, hedge, or re-check a position before a company reports.

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7. Options flow — unusual activity

Fires when large options trades are reported on the underlying stock, the ordinary share the contracts are written on. Tradion scans every five minutes. Set a direction — calls, puts, either — and a premium threshold: default 100,000, floor 10,000. An options contract gives its holder the right to buy (a call) or sell (a put) 100 shares at a set price before a set date. Every completed trade is reported publicly — traders say a trade prints when that report appears. Premium is the cash changing hands on one trade, so a very large premium means somebody sized a bet big enough to stand out. That is a fact about order flow, not a prediction: the buyer may be hedging.

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8. Insider transactions

Fires when a new SEC Form 4 appears — the disclosure US directors, officers, and holders of more than 10% of a company’s shares must file within two business days of trading their own stock. Filter to buys, sells, or either. The default, Buys Only, is doing real work. Insiders sell for a hundred ordinary reasons: vesting, selling plans, a tax bill. They buy for one. Only new filings fire.

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9. Corporate actions

Fires when the company announces a structural event: cash or stock dividend, forward or reverse split, cash or stock merger, spin-off, or name change. Pick one type or any. Tradion reads the last 30 days and fires on announcements it hasn’t reported. Use it when an event would change what your position is: a split changes your share count and price, a merger can end the ticker, a spin-off hands you shares you never bought.

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Asset-type notes

Stocks get all nine. Crypto gets price, technical, volume, change %, and news. Forex gets price and change % only. Options get price, volume, and change %. Change the asset type on a saved automation and any unsupported signal resets to Price. Forex has no volume in its data feed, so volume and indicator signals are unavailable and the timeframe locks to daily. Options contracts come from a live chain picker: expiry, then call or put, then strike. Each row shows the bid (highest price a buyer is offering), the ask (lowest a seller will take), and the delta (roughly how much the contract moves per one-dollar move in the underlying, on a 0 to 1 scale). The picker writes an OCC symbol — the code packing underlying, expiry, call or put, and strike into one string. Expired contracts never fire again.

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Operators

Crosses vs stays, and which you want.

The AI Agent node

Turn a signal into a research brief.