AlertaChart Wire editorial policy

Who publishes the Wire

AlertaChart Wire is the news section of alertachart.com. It is published by Alerta Chart, the charting and market-analysis platform for crypto, stocks, forex, commodities and indices. Stories appear under the name Alerta Chart in English and Turkish, and selected stories also in 20 other languages.

More about the company and the people behind it is on our About page. Contact details are at the end of this page.

What the Wire covers

The Wire reports what happened in markets, with exact figures and in plain words:

price moves, records and closes of cryptocurrencies, US stocks, indices and index contracts, currencies and commodities;
crypto futures liquidations, funding rates and open interest;
Federal Reserve decisions and US economic data, and previews of scheduled releases;
news that companies in the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100, and listed companies that hold bitcoin, file with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC);
new markets announced by crypto exchanges;
daily, weekly and monthly overviews of markets.

Every story is based on data AlertaChart records itself, on market data we license, or on official public sources. One market event gets one story: when a stock opens with a price gap, keeps moving and then closes at a record, or when one coin crosses several thresholds in a day, the existing page is updated instead of new pages being published. The Wire publishes at most 100 new stories a day.

When we summarise other publishers' reporting, the summary is labelled “AlertaChart summary”, draws only on publishers that have given us permission, and names and links every report it is based on.

How stories are made

Software watches our data for events that meet fixed rules, such as a price move past a set threshold or a close above every earlier close in our records. It checks the data and collects the story's facts: the figures, their sources and times, and the context around them. The rules for each kind of story are in the methodology.

Data that looks wrong, stale or incomplete stops a story: it is held back and never published automatically. A close is reported only from a final value that two separate reads confirmed, and never for a day the market was closed.

Many stories are then written as articles by AI from those facts, as described below. Every story also has a text that software writes from fixed templates, with figures taken directly from the data. When no AI-written text passes every check, the template text is published instead.

English and Turkish texts are written separately from the same facts. Stories in the other 20 languages are translations of the English article.

How we use AI

We use Claude, a family of AI models made by Anthropic. AI does these tasks on the Wire:

writing articles in English from the facts of a story;
writing the Turkish article from the same facts and the checked English article;
judging whether a company's SEC filing contains news, and summarising it from the press release the company filed with it;
describing Federal Reserve statements and US economic releases, and writing daily, weekly and monthly overviews of markets;
translating selected stories from English into 20 other languages;
reviewing those translations: a different model translates each one back into English without seeing the original, and separate models check its meaning and numbers, its language and terms, and its compliance with the standards below;
fixing a translation once when a reviewer finds a problem.

The models write only from the facts we give them. Software checks every text before it can be published: every number, name, date and source must appear in the facts; words such as “record” or “largest since” must be backed by the data; and the text may not predict prices, give advice, explain a price move with a cause the data does not show, copy a source document or promote AlertaChart. Software also reads every number of a translation the way that language writes numbers and compares it with the facts. If any check fails, the template text is published in English or Turkish, and a translation that fails is not published in that language.

No person reads an AI-written story or a translation before it is published. Each kind of AI-written story, and each language, first runs in a trial period in which its texts are checked but not published.

A filing story whose AI summary does not pass every check is never published with that summary; at most a one-sentence notice that links the filing appears, kept out of search results and feeds.

A story written by AI ends with one sentence after its sources: “This story was written by AI from the data and sources listed above.” Stories written from templates alone carry no such sentence. The images on story pages are drawn from the data and never contain AI-written text.

Standards

These rules apply to every story, in every language:

No predictions. We report what happened, not what a market will do next.
No investment advice. We never tell readers to buy, sell or hold anything.
No guessed causes. A move is not explained with a reason the data does not show.
No copying. We do not reproduce other publishers' articles, and we report filings in our own words.
No promotion and no paid placement. Story texts contain no advertising or promotion, nobody pays for coverage, and links to our app appear at the end of a page, apart from the story.
No sensational wording. A headline states the figure and what it measures.
Contracts are called contracts. NAS100, SPX500, US30, JP225 and HK50 are perpetual contracts that track the Nasdaq-100, the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nikkei 225 and the Hang Seng Index. Their prices come from contract trades recorded in AlertaChart's own database. We report the contract's level and never present it as the index's official close.
Independence. Data providers and exchanges have no say over which stories run or what they say.

Market information, not investment advice.

Sources and credits

Every story lists its sources at the end, with links to official documents where they exist.

AlertaChart data. Prices, liquidations, funding rates and open interest recorded in AlertaChart's own database: Binance (spot and futures prices, futures liquidations), Bybit and OKX (funding rates, open interest and liquidations), trades in the index and commodity contracts the app charts, and AlertaChart's estimate of the total value of the crypto market. Stories based on it say “according to AlertaChart data”; crypto stories also name the exchange.
iTick. iTick supplies stock, index and forex data to AlertaChart under a commercial agreement. iTick has no say over which stories run or what they say. Stories that use iTick data are credited “Data: iTick” with a link to itick.org.
SEC EDGAR. SEC filings are the companies' own documents, published through EDGAR. We report their facts in our own words and link the filing. AlertaChart is not affiliated with the SEC. The credit line of such a story reads, for example, “Apple Form 8-K (SEC EDGAR)”.
Federal Reserve. Decisions, statements and meeting dates of the Federal Open Market Committee, credited to the Federal Reserve and linked to the statement on federalreserve.gov.
FRED. US economic data and release dates published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Census Bureau, read through FRED, the economic database of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Each story names the agency that published the figure. This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED API terms of use.
Exchange announcements. A new listing is reported only from the exchange's own announcement on its own website, after we confirm that the market is new.

Languages

Stories are written in English and Turkish. Turkish texts give times in Turkey time (TSİ); English texts and the other languages give times in UTC unless a local exchange time is named.

Selected stories are also translated from English into Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Japanese, Ukrainian, Persian, Russian, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Thai, Hindi, Italian, Dutch, Romanian, Czech and Bulgarian. These are mostly stories built on data only we hold, such as the daily crypto close, large Bitcoin and Ethereum moves, liquidations, Fed decisions and US inflation and jobs data. Each translation goes through the checks described above; a language that does not pass them is left out for that story, and the English article stays the source.

When a story is corrected, its translations are taken down at once and return only after the corrected text has been translated and checked again.

Updates

A story about a stock, an index, a currency or a commodity covers that market for one trading session, and a story about one coin covers that coin for one UTC day. When something new happens, such as a larger move, a record or the close, we update the story instead of publishing another, at most 4 times. Each update is listed on the page with its time and what changed, such as “closing price added”, and the page shows when it was last updated.

Corrections and withdrawals

If a published figure or fact is wrong, we correct the story and add a note at its end, headed “Correction” with its date and time, that says what was wrong. The story's update time changes with the correction, and our news feeds carry the corrected text.

A story that should not have been published is withdrawn: it is removed from the Wire's lists and feeds, and its page shows only a short note that the story was withdrawn.

To report an error, write to info@alertachart.com with the address of the story.

Contact

Write to info@alertachart.com to report an error, to ask about a story or to reach the publisher. Please include the address (URL) of the story you are writing about.