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VIX Spike Above 30

Alert ID: VIX_SPIKE
Category: volatility
Cross-detection: no

Severity

WARNING — conditions deteriorating; worth monitoring

Trigger condition

{
  "field": "vix_close",
  "op": "gt",
  "value": 30,
  "_registry_band_intentional": true,
  "_intentional_reason": "B7 (2026-05) tightened the registry High vol band from 30 \u2192 27 to align the BEARISH implication with the big_down SHAP discriminator. The VIX_SPIKE alert deliberately stays at 30 \u2014 it is a tail-spike notification rather than a band-edge crossing, sitting between the new High vol (27) and Fear (40) bands. Moving it down would over-fire the warning during routine elevated-vol weeks; keeping it at 30 preserves the original 'meaningful spike' semantics."
}

vix_close > 30

Message template

VIX spiked to {vix_close:.1f} — elevated volatility regime.

Rendered with the current signals dict via Python str.format. Placeholders that fail to resolve fall back to the raw template (see _format_message in app/signals/alerts.py).

Cooldown / dedup

• Cooldown: none. Re-evaluation on every cycle.
• Dedup: at most one active (or acknowledged) row per alert_id at a time. Re-firing while active updates fired_at and the message but keeps the original first_fired_at.

Notifies

• Active alert feed (/api/v1/alerts/active, /alerts/summary).
• SSE stream (/api/v1/agents/stream) for real-time consumers.
• alert_fired webhook on first fire.
• alert_resolved webhook when the condition clears (non-cross-detection alerts only).

See also

• Signal fields referenced: vix_close (no dedicated KB article yet — see /humans#signal-reference).
• Alert reference (legacy monolith)
• Live alerts feed