How to read a smart-money alert in ten seconds
Every SpotX alert carries the same six fields. What each one should change about your decision and what none of them promise.
Pattern tells you what happened. Wallet count tells you how much to trust it. The hash tells you it is real.
An alert is only useful if you can act on it before the moment passes, which means the reading has to be fast. Every alert we send carries the same six fields, in the same order, for exactly that reason. Here is what each one is for.
Chain. Which network the flow happened on. This is a practicality check before anything else: if you cannot execute there in the next few minutes, the rest of the alert is reading material, not a trade.
Pattern. Rotation, inflow, early exit or distribution. This is the single most important field, because it tells you what kind of decision you are looking at. Inflow and rotation are about entering. Early exit and distribution are about whether to still be holding.
Score. A ranking, from published inputs, of how strong this instance of the pattern is relative to others. It is not a probability and it is not a forecast — treating it as either is the most common mistake people make with any scored feed. The right use is comparative: on a busy morning, it tells you which two of nine alerts deserve your attention first.
Wallet count and independent participants. Two numbers, and the second matters more. Six wallets that turn out to be one desk is one opinion. Four wallets that appear to be four separate actors is a pattern. When those numbers diverge sharply, size down.
Notional. How much capital moved. Useful as context, dangerous as a headline. Large size in a thin token is often a liquidity event rather than a conviction event, which is why our filter looks at the two together rather than rewarding size on its own.
The transaction hash. The field nobody looks at and the only one that makes the rest of it accountable. Paste it into any explorer and you can see the actual transaction, its block, and its timestamp, and compare that timestamp to when our alert reached you. Nothing in a SpotX alert asks you to take our word for it.
What an alert does not tell you: whether the token is worth owning, what your size should be, or where your stop belongs. Flow is one input into a decision that remains yours. The traders who get the most out of this feed are the ones who already had a process and used us to find candidates for it faster, not the ones looking for something to follow.