Getting started with AlertaChart

AlertaChart brings crypto, stocks, forex, indices and futures onto one screen, together with the drawing tools, indicators and alerts you need to follow them. This guide takes you from your first chart to your first alert.

1. Sign in

You can look at charts without an account. Signing in with Google or Apple keeps your watchlists, alerts and settings attached to you. Use the same account on every device — that is also how a subscription follows you from your phone to your computer.

2. Open a symbol

Click the symbol name at the top left of the chart and start typing: BTC, ETH, AAPL, EURUSD, GOLD, NAS100. One search covers every market. Each result shows its exchange and market, so you can choose between Bitcoin spot, the perpetual contract, or the same coin on another exchange.

3. Choose a timeframe and a chart type

The timeframe button next to the symbol switches between minutes, hours, days, weeks and months. Star your favourite timeframes so they stay one click away. The chart-type button offers 13 styles, from classic candles to Heikin Ashi, line and area.

4. Build your watchlist

The watchlist on the right (the Watchlist tab on mobile) is your shortcut bar. Press + to add symbols and click a row to open it on the chart. You can keep several named lists, for example "Short-term" and "Long-term".

5. Draw and add indicators

The toolbar on the left of the chart holds more than 90 drawing tools: trend lines, Fibonacci, channels, patterns, long and short positions, text and more. The Indicators button adds RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands and many others. Every indicator has its own gear for colours and settings.

6. Set your first alert

Right-click the chart at the price you care about and choose "Set price alert". On mobile, use the 🔔 next to the price scale. It is saved at once and fires when the price crosses that level. To choose the condition, whether it fires once or every time, and how you are notified, use the Alert button in the chart toolbar or the + in the Alerts panel.

7. Get the mobile app

AlertaChart is on the App Store and Google Play. The app brings notifications to your phone, and everything you set up on the web is waiting for you as soon as you sign in.

Where to go next

• Drawing tools: every group and how to use it
• Alerts: conditions, notifications and limits
• Plans: what Starter, Trader, Pro and Elite add