Getting Started

Getting Started with AlertaChart: Your First Hour

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AlertaChart is a multi-asset charting platform built for traders who want one screen for crypto, equities, and forex with serious technical-analysis tooling underneath. This guide walks you through the first hour: creating an account, opening your first chart, adding pairs to your unified watchlist, and setting your first price alert.

Step 1 — Create a free account

Creating an account does not start a trial by itself. Eligible new iOS or Android subscribers may see a store-managed 3-day free trial on participating monthly products. The offer and eligibility shown on the App Store or Google Play purchase screen are authoritative. A web purchase does not promise a trial. Unless cancelled before the trial ends, the store renews at the displayed price.

Step 2 — Find your first symbol

The Symbol Search bar at the top of the chart accepts crypto pairs (BTC, ETHUSDT), Binance perpetual futures (look for the FUT tag), equity tickers (AAPL, NVDA, MSFT), forex pairs (EURUSD, GBPUSD), and global indices (TOTAL, BTC.D, NAS100, SPX500). Type any of those into the search box and pick the row you want. AlertaChart routes the symbol to the right data feed automatically — Binance Spot for plain crypto, Binance Futures for the .P-tagged rows, the equity feed for stocks and forex, and the index feed for crypto-market aggregates.

Step 3 — Read the chart

Each green candle means the price closed higher than it opened in that bar; red is the opposite. Volume bars run along the bottom — they show how much of the asset traded inside that bar's time window. Big volume on a breakout candle is a stronger signal than a thin-volume one.

Change the timeframe with the dropdown at the top (15m, 1h, 4h, 1d, etc.). Drag the chart left or right to scrub through history; the chart lazy-loads older candles when you reach the left edge. Pinch-zoom on mobile, or use the mouse wheel + scroll on desktop.

Step 4 — Build your unified watchlist

The right-hand Watchlist is your shortcut bar. Click the "+" next to the title to open the omnibus Symbol Search and add anything: spot crypto, futures (.P), stocks, forex, or aggregates. The list is unified — spot and futures of the same coin coexist on separate rows (BTC USDT vs BTC USDT.P), and clicking either row swaps the chart and the data pipeline atomically.

Drawings, alerts and chart preferences are saved according to the feature and device. Cross-device cloud synchronization of watchlists and drawings starts with Trader and requires the same signed-in AlertaChart account. Local-only data is not guaranteed to return after browser storage is cleared or the app is removed.

Step 5 — Set your first price alert

On desktop, right-click anywhere on the chart at the price level you want to be notified at and choose "Set Alert". On mobile, long-press the same spot on the chart and tap the bell icon that appears. AlertaChart figures out the direction (above/below current price) automatically, but you can override it from the Alerts panel.

Every paid tier (Starter, Trader, Pro and Elite) runs price alerts on AlertaChart servers 24/7 and can notify you when the app is closed. Free alerts are evaluated locally and require the app to be open. Technical, trendline and watchlist-scan alerts start at Pro.

Step 6 — Install the mobile app (optional but recommended)

AlertaChart is available on the App Store and Google Play. The native build adds three things you can't get on the web: real push notifications (web notifications are unreliable on iOS), faster cold-start because the static shell ships inside the app bundle, and tab-based navigation tuned for one-thumb use. The watchlist and chart you set up on the web appear the moment you sign in on mobile.