Alerts: conditions, notifications and limits

Alerts watch the market for you. You decide what should happen and how you want to hear about it.

Creating an alert

• Right-click the chart at a price and choose "Set price alert", or press the 🔔 next to the price scale (tap twice on mobile). It is saved at once and fires when the price crosses that level.
• The Alert button in the chart toolbar and the + in the Alerts panel open the alert window with the current price filled in; choose everything below before saving.
• With Pro, "Add alert" on a watchlist row opens that window for the symbol.

Click a saved alert in the Alerts panel to change it.

Conditions

• Crossing, crossing up or crossing down a price
• Greater than or less than a price
• Entering, exiting, inside or outside a channel between two prices
• Moving up or down by an amount or a percentage

An alert set at a price the market has already passed waits for the price to come back and cross it.

Once or every time

"Once" fires one time and then moves the alert to the log. "Every time" keeps it active and fires whenever the condition is met again. You can add a message, choose an expiry date and decide how you are notified: an app notification, a sound and a pop-up on screen.

When the app is closed

With a paid plan, alerts are watched around the clock and reach your phone even when AlertaChart is closed, each against its own market's price: Binance crypto pairs (spot and perpetual) quoted in USDT, USDC or USD, Bybit, OKX and Coinbase pairs, Hyperliquid, TOTAL and the dominance indices, and stocks, forex, indices and CME futures while their market trades. Some other Binance spot pairs, such as TRY pairs, are refreshed less often and may fire up to 30 minutes late. Alerts on Binance pairs quoted in other currencies (EUR pairs, for example) and on options work while AlertaChart is open. Script alerts (Pro and Elite) are watched around the clock on Binance, Bybit, OKX and Coinbase spot and perpetual pairs and Hyperliquid perpetuals, on 1-minute to 1-week charts, and checked once at each bar close; on other markets and timeframes they work while AlertaChart is open. When you create an alert, the app tells you which kind it is. Order-flow alerts (Pro and Elite) are watched around the clock on every exchange they offer.

On the Free plan all alerts work while the app is open.

How many alerts

• Free: 2
• Starter: 20
• Trader: 100
• Pro: 400
• Elite: 1,000

Pro alert types

Pro and Elite add:

• Technical alerts on RSI, MACD, Stochastic, Stochastic RSI, CCI, Williams %R and ATR (400 on Pro, 1,000 on Elite)
• Order-flow alerts on net buying, open interest, funding and liquidations, without a script (details below)
• Trendline alerts that follow a sloped line
• Watchlist alerts that watch a whole list (2 on Pro, 15 on Elite)
• Alerts sent to a web address (webhook) for your own tools

Order-flow alerts (Pro)

Choose "Order flow" in the alert window to be told when the market's own data moves, not only the price. No script is needed.

• Spot and futures net buying (CVD): when buyers or sellers pass an amount you choose, for example 50 million dollars of net buying in an hour
• Open interest: when it crosses a level, stays above or below it, or rises or falls by a percentage
• Funding rate: when it crosses a level or stays above or below it, for example when it turns negative
• Long and short liquidations: when they pass an amount
• On all exchanges together (net buying, open interest and liquidations added up, funding averaged by open interest) or on one that lists the coin: Binance, Bybit, OKX, Coinbase or Hyperliquid. Spot net buying is not read on Hyperliquid, liquidations not on Coinbase or Hyperliquid, and the open-interest change not on Coinbase
• Net buying, liquidations and the open-interest change: per candle, or over the last 15 minutes, hour, 4 hours, 24 hours or 7 days, since 00:00 UTC today or since you set the alert; the choices depend on the candle size. A sum counted since you set it (net buying, liquidations) ends after 900 candles, a liquidation total after 29 days at most; the open-interest change since then has no end
• Watched around the clock and checked at every candle close, so they reach your phone and your linked Telegram even when AlertaChart is closed
• Order-flow and script alerts share one limit for round-the-clock watching: 20 different combinations (what is watched, the pair and the candle size) on Pro, 50 on Elite; more alerts on a combination already watched still fit, but one counted since you set it starts a combination of its own
• Your AI assistant can set them too, for example: "Alert me if BTC spot net buying passes 30 million dollars in an hour."

Market alerts (Pro)

Percentage-change, volume-spike and funding-rate alerts, set on the web in the Alerts panel's Market tab or under Settings in the app. Percentage moves work on crypto, stocks, forex, indices and futures; volume spikes on crypto pairs; funding on Binance, Bybit, OKX and Hyperliquid perpetuals. They are watched 24/7 and reach every phone of your account, your linked Telegram and the web while it is open.

Other notifications

• Market summary twice a day and the US market open (every plan)
• Automatic BTC, ETH, SOL and BNB alerts when they approach round price levels or make sharp price or volume moves (Starter and above)
• New listings on Binance, Bybit, Coinbase and Upbit the moment they are announced (Starter and above)
• Large liquidations: on mobile, single liquidations of 1 million dollars or more (Pro)

The alert log

Triggered alerts move to the log with the time and price, so you can look back at what happened.