The rule template gallery

Every Sentinel template, what it fires on, and which platforms ship it. Templates with the same name do not always fire at the same number.

WebiPhoneAndroid Updated 26 July 2026

What this does

The gallery is a set of pre-built rules you can adopt in one tap. Each one watches physiology, a clock, or a market condition. None of them watches your trades, because Sentinel cannot see them.

Adopting a template creates a custom rule on your account, which you can then edit.

Read the table by the trigger, not by the name. The catalogue grew separately on each platform, so the same name can mean two different rules and two different names can mean the same rule. The table below is generated from the three apps at build time and is grouped by what a rule actually fires on. A blank cell means that platform does not ship that template.

Sentinel rule templates by trigger

Fires when	Category	Web	iPhone and iPad	Android
Fed event today = 1			Fed Event Day Guard
Fed event today >= 1				Fed Event Alert
Heart rate < 80	Health	Heart Rate Recovery
Heart rate > 100	Health	Heart Rate Spike	Heart Rate Spike
Heart rate > 110				Heart Rate Spike
Heart rate > 120	Health	Extreme Heart Rate	Extreme Heart Rate	Extreme Heart Rate
Heart rate above your baseline > 20	Health	Sustained HR Elevation
Heart rate above your baseline > 25			Sustained HR Elevation	Sustained HR Elevation
Hour of the day >= 22			Late Night Guard
HRV < 25			HRV Drop Alert	HRV Drop Alert
HRV < 30	Health	Low HRV Warning
Market hours < 1				After Hours Guard
Session state = stressed	Behavior	Stressed State Alert
Session state = tilt	Behavior	Tilt State Escalation
Session state >= 1			Elevated State Alert	Elevated State Alert
Session state >= 2			Stressed State Alert	Stressed State Alert
Session state >= 3			Tilt State Escalation	Tilt State Escalation
Sleep < 3	Wellness	Minimal Sleep Guard
Sleep < 4			Severe Sleep Deficit	Severe Sleep Deficit
Sleep < 4.5	Wellness	Severe Sleep Deficit
Sleep < 6	Wellness	Sleep Deficit Warning	Sleep Deficit Warning	Low Sleep Warning
Sleep >= 8	Wellness	Well Rested Bonus	Well Rested Bonus	Well Rested Bonus
Stress level = high	Health	Critical Stress + Trading
Stress level >= 3			High Stress Level	High Stress Level
Time in the session > 120	Behavior	Quick Session Check
Time in the session > 240	Behavior	Session Duration Limit
Time in the session > 360	Behavior	Extended Session Warning
Time in the session > 480	Wellness	Late Night Trading
Time trading > 240				Session Duration Limit
Time trading >= 240			Marathon Session
VIX > 25 (vix)			High Volatility Alert
VIX > 25 (vixLevel)				High Volatility Guard

A blank cell means that platform does not ship this template.
Rows are matched on the trigger itself, not on the template name. Two platforms appear on the same row only when the rule fires on identical conditions, so a name that appears on two rows is two genuinely different rules.

Three things in that table are worth knowing before you adopt anything.

Only three of the 32 distinct triggers exist on all three platforms. Most templates are on one platform only.

Some shared names fire at different numbers. Heart Rate Spike is a good example: adopt it on the web or on iPhone and it watches for a heart rate above 100, adopt it on Android and it watches for one above 110. Same name, different rule.

Some different names are the same rule. HRV Drop Alert on iPhone and Android fires on exactly what Low HRV Warning fires on for the web, at a different number again.

None of this stops you using the templates. It does mean you should check the value in the table before you rely on a name, and check the rule again after you adopt it.

Before you start

After adopting a template, open the rule and set the threshold you actually want. Most people do: production accounts show far more hand-picked values than template defaults.

Templates are grouped behind filter pills: All, Behavior, Health Metrics, Time-Based and Wellness. Not every template carries a category, so All shows more than the four category pills add up to.

A template that watches something your device does not measure will never fire. HRV templates need a device that sends beat-to-beat data, and sleep templates need something recording your sleep.

Steps

Open VEXA Sentinel from the sidebar.
Open the Rules tab and scroll to the Rule Templates gallery.
Use the category pills to narrow the list.
Click the add control on a template card and wait for “Adding…” to finish.
Open the new rule under Trading Rules and adjust its threshold.

Open Home, then tap Sentinel.
Tap Rule Templates.
Use the category pills to narrow the list.
Tap the add control on a template.
Open the new rule under Trading Rules and adjust its threshold.

Open Home, then tap Sentinel.
Tap Rule Templates.
Use the category pills to narrow the list.
Tap the add control on a template.
Open the new rule under Trading Rules and adjust its threshold.

What you should see

The template card shows “Adding…” briefly, then the new rule appears in your Trading Rules list, enabled, with the template’s conditions filled in.

Opening it shows the condition, the operator and the value, so you can check what you actually adopted against the table above.

If it doesn’t work

The rule you adopted fires at a different number than a colleague’s. Expected if you adopted on different platforms. Compare the values in the two rules and set them both to what you want.

A template you saw on the web is not on your phone. Twelve of the templates are web-only. The table shows which. Build it by hand instead. See Build a Sentinel rule.

Adopting the same template twice created two rules. Delete one. Adoption does not check for duplicates.

The rule never fires. Its metric is not being supplied by your wearable, or a throttle is suppressing it. See Why you did not get an intervention.

Default rules and custom rules Which Sentinel rules you can edit, which you can only switch on and off, and where your rules live. Build a Sentinel rule The seven things a Sentinel rule can watch, how conditions combine, and what each action, severity and cooldown does. Why you did not get an intervention Four throttles sit between a rule being met and an alert reaching you. They are deliberate, and this is what each one does.

Still stuck? Email support@vexatrade.ai.