Alert

An alert is an automated flag raised by a surveillance system. The overwhelming majority are false positives, so how a firm triages and documents them is often more probative than the alert itself.

compliance and practice · updated 2026-09-08

See also

• Surveillance — Surveillance, in a market context, is the automated monitoring of order and trade data for patterns that suggest abuse. Exchanges,…
• False positive — A false positive is a surveillance alert that turns out to be innocent activity. Manipulation detection operates at very low base …

Terms that refer here

False positive · Suspicious transaction report

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