24/7 markets but we’re only awake 16 hours. what’s everyone actually running for automated monitoring?

missed a big ETH move last year because i was asleep. level i'd been watching for weeks, broke at 2am, was already over by morning.

got me thinking about a structural problem most retail traders ignore: crypto never closes, but we do. and passive monitoring (checking your phone) isn't the same as active monitoring (something watching 24/7 with logic behind it).

been building out my own self-hosted alert stack since then. running on a mac mini, pushes to any message platform. what i landed on after a lot of iteration:

price threshold + cooldown: without a cooldown you get spammed every time price taps a level. the cooldown makes it fire once per meaningful move, not 40 times when price hovers near resistance.

portfolio drift: most people don't realize their risk profile changes silently when one asset runs. watching allocation % vs target tells you more than price alone.

perp funding rate: when funding goes extreme in either direction the squeeze is usually coming. this one fires early relative to price.

volume anomaly: 2x 7-day average volume on a tracked asset usually precedes the narrative, not follows it. fires before the reason hits the news.

fear and greed extremes: less alpha, more context. useful for not making emotional decisions at the wrong time.

curious what others are running in production. is there a signal type that's worked well for you that isn't covered here, liquidation heatmaps, open interest changes, on-chain flows? and what infrastructure are people using, exchange webhooks, custom scripts, something else?