Learn how to configure alerts

Precise configuration triggers your alerts exactly when you need them. Here, we'll cover how alerts can be tailored to your trading and investment approach, and what types of operators you can choose from to find the setup best-suited to your strategy.

Must-know alert settings

When you access the alert settings window, you'll see three tabs: Settings, Message, and Notifications.

In the Settings tab, you can adjust the following fields:

Symbols: Choose whether to set an alert for the current symbol or a watchlist
Condition: Select the alert type — it can be either a price alert or a technical alert for an indicator, strategy or drawing tool on your chart. You can also choose an operator, input values for the alert, and set a different interval from your chart
Trigger: Specify how often the alert will trigger — only once, every time, once per bar close, or once per minute
Expiration: Choose the date when the alert will expire, or toggle the "Open-ended alert" option

In the Message tab, the information provided when an alert triggers:

Alert name: The title displayed in the Alert manager, toast notification and Alert log when the alert is triggered
Message: The text shown when the alert is triggered. You can use special placeholders to access variable values in the alert's message

Types of operators

When setting up an alert, you'll need to define the operator that triggers it.

For both price and technical alerts, there are 13 common types grouped into several categories that function in similar ways.

Crossing / Crossing up / Crossing down

For a simple Crossing, the alert will trigger when a value reaches a specific level from either direction.

For example, you'll get notified when BTC reaches exactly $100,000. It works in both directions — whether it drops from $105,000 or rises from $95,000.

For Crossing up and Crossing down, you specify the direction from which the value must reach the threshold for the alert to trigger.

For example, the current BTC price is $105,000. You set a Crossing up alert at $100,000. The alert triggers only after the price drops below $100,000 and then rises back to that level.

Greater than / Less than

These types of triggers are similar to Crossing conditions. The difference is that the alert fires when the price surpasses the alert value — not just when it reaches it.

For example, the current BTC price is $105,000. You set a Less than alert at $100,000. The notification will trigger when the BTC price falls to $99,999.99.

Entering channel / Exiting channel

Channels are boundaries above and below a specific price, an indicator value, or a drawing. You can use channels in your technical analysis to define potential price volatility for an asset.

These alerts trigger when the price or value set in the alert enters or exits the channel boundaries.

For example, the alert triggers when BTC enters the $100,000–$105,000 channel. Or when the price exits this channel in either direction.

Inside channel / Outside channel

These types of operators trigger the alert when the value surpasses the channel boundaries.

For example, the alert's channel is $100,000–$105,000.

The Inside channel operator will trigger the alert at $100,000.01 and $104,999.99.

The Outside channel operator will trigger the alert at $99,999.99 and $105,000.01.

Moving up / Moving down / Moving up % / Moving down %

These alerts are similar to Crossing up and Crossing down alerts, but they include a time parameter. This alert type triggers if the asset's price rises or falls by a certain value within a specified number of bars.

For example, the alert triggers when the BTC price moves up or down by $1,000 within five bars.

For Moving up % and Moving down %, values are specified as percentages. They trigger when the price rises or falls by a certain percentage within a specified number of bars. For example, the alert will trigger when the BTC price moves up or down by 5% within five bars.