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Price Alerts

Notifications when price hits your level: automation for traders who sleep.

Quick answer

Price alerts notify you when an instrument hits your level. Set them at support, resistance and entry zones instead of watching charts all day.

Definition

Price alerts notify you when an instrument touches a level you set, by push, email or SMS. They separate watching from waiting: instead of staring at charts, you define the levels that matter and let the platform tap you when price arrives.

How It Works

  • Set price, indicator or news-condition triggers
  • Delivered by push, email or SMS instantly
  • Fire once or repeat until cancelled

Trading Tips

1

Alert every key level before the session, then walk away

2

Thin alerts to levels you would actually trade

3

Alert fatigue kills attention: ten sharp alerts beat fifty noisy ones

Price Alerts Example

Say EUR/USD coils at 1.0880 while you work. You set alerts at 1.0900 and 1.0860. The phone buzzes Thursday at the top alert and you trade the breakout live instead of discovering it Friday.

How Traders Use Price Alerts

Build an alert map every morning: entries, invalidation, targets. Let alerts pull you to the screen only when something tradeable happens. No alert, no trade, no staring.

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