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Crypto next to world events: what "same window" means

A world event is something recorded from outside the crypto price: a central-bank decision, a jobs release, a weather warning, a bank failure, or an official post. An alert can show that event beside the coin. The words place the event in time. They do not tie the event to the move.

It does not describe a path after an event, and it does not tell you what to do with a coin.

What gets recorded

Each event has a type, a time, a source, and, when the source prints them, the source's own numbers. The title is written by code from those fields. A model does not write the title. A missing number stays "unavailable". A look-ahead figure is not filled in.

The categories are central banks, banks, the economy, geopolitics, commodities, politics, weather, real estate, and posts on official project status pages. A news row, when that source is on, says articles appeared in a short span. Publisher titles are not listed here.

Each event keeps the time it happened and the time it was first known here. An event is not used before that second time. Data sources describes the public sources, including central banks and US statistics agencies, and what happens when one is late.

What "same window" means on an alert

When an alert fires, the facts can include world events whose time falls inside a window that ends at the alert. The window is the alert's own window when it has one: 15 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, or 24 hours. A price level has no window of its own, so those lines use 1 hour. The window is never longer than 24 hours.

An event is included when it happened inside that span and was already known at the alert's time. Same-coin items come first, then the other categories, then the newest. An empty window is stored too. "No world event in the hour before" is a fact. On a short message the line reads "Same window: no world event recorded."

An event learned only after the alert can be added later, marked "known after the alert". A date-only item, such as a document dated to a calendar day, enters a 24-hour window only.

The line names the time and the source. Allowed shapes are "at the same time", "in the same hour", and how many minutes earlier. It does not say the event caused the move, or that the move was due to the event, driven by it, or in response to it. "Same window" is a clock. It is not a reason.

A note may mention an event only that way: in the window, with its time, in its own sentence. Words that tie the event to the move are refused. The world line itself is code, with no model label.

An alert that pairs an event with a move

You can set an alert for a chosen kind of event and a move you sized yourself, on one coin or your watchlist, inside 15 minutes, 1 hour, or 4 hours. The check measures the coin from the close of the event's minute to the latest price, newest event first. It fires once when that move meets the size and direction you set. It is ready again on a newer event of the same type. The event it already used does not fire it again.

The preview reads recent events of that type and the prices stored after them, measured at the end of the window. A failed read leaves those alerts with nothing to check. Other alerts on the coin are still checked.

What the later prices are

After an event, a receipt records Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), and gold at 1 hour, 4 hours, 24 hours, and 7 days. Each slot is the price at that clock, from a named source, or the word missing. How alert receipts are recorded is the same idea on an alert you set. How to read a crypto alert receipt walks through the four clocks.

The change on a later slot is measured from the start price of the same symbol. The start row has no change. If the start price is missing, the later slots are missing too. A missing price is not written as a flat move, and it is not borrowed from another symbol.

Gold uses its own price record, the exact minute or the nearest minute close by. If that record has no price, the gold slot stays missing.

Some items are known only as a calendar day, with the clock at midnight, hours before the news. Their 1-hour and 4-hour slots are missing at once. The price at the start of that day stays for the 24-hour and 7-day slots. The time the row was fetched is not used as the event time.

None of these slots says the event caused the path. This page does not print a list of moves.

Terminal never forecasts. It records those later prices for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and gold, and it leaves a missing price blank.

FAQ

Does "same window" mean the event caused the move?

No. It means the event's time fell in the alert's window, and the line says when. The alert can also say that nothing was recorded in that window. Neither sentence ties the event to the coin.

What does a receipt after an event record?

It records the price of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and gold at 1 hour, 4 hours, 24 hours, and 7 days after the event, each from a named source. A slot with no price says missing. The change uses the start price of the same symbol. A missing start leaves the later slots missing.

Can a note say the move followed the event?

It can say the event happened in the same window, with its time. It cannot tie the event to the move. The world line on the alert is written by code from the stored event, not as a reason for the price.

Sources

Pages on this site, plus official pages opened on 2026-10-29. No figure from those official pages is copied here.

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