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
Click "Giriş Yap" (Sign in) in the top right of the desktop site, or open the My Account tab on mobile. AlertaChart uses Google and Apple Sign-In for new accounts — no separate password to remember, and your watchlist syncs across devices the second you log in. Every new account starts with a 3-day Pro trial that unlocks the full feature set so you can decide whether the paid plan fits your workflow before committing.
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.
The first time you sign in you'll see a curated default list: BTC, ETH, BTC.P, ETH.P, NAS100, SPX500, SOL, BNB, XRP, ADA. Edit it however you like — your list persists per account and follows you across web, iOS, and Android.
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.
Free plan users get up to 5 active alerts and only receive notifications while the app is open. Pro users get 25 active alerts and 24/7 server-side price tracking that fires push notifications on iOS/Android even when the app is closed — your alarms keep watching the market while you sleep, so a midnight breakout doesn't go un-pinged.
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.
What to read next
- "Unified Watchlist: spot, futures, and equities on one list" — the watchlist routes everything; understanding the .P suffix saves time. - "Setting price alerts that actually fire" — covers Pro vs Free, notification channels, and how server-side monitoring works. - "Orderflow Toolbox" — once you're comfortable with candles, the CVD / Open Interest / Funding stack is what most traders upgrade for.