Alerts
Let alerts watch the market
Set a condition on price or on any indicator on your chart, including your own Indie® scripts. Alerts run in the cloud, keep working with the platform closed, and reach you by email, in Telegram, or through a webhook.
Pick a condition
Every alert watches a source, price or an indicator, for one of these conditions. The criteria cards link to examples.A price level
Greater Than, Lower Than, and Crossing: price or an indicator moves past a level you set. Use Crossing against a value to be told when price reaches a level from either direction.
A sharp move
Moving Up and Moving Down: a rise or fall by a set amount or percentage within a number of bars.
A crossover
Cross Up and Cross Down: one series crosses another from below or above, such as price and a moving average.
A range
Channel conditions: price or an indicator enters, exits, stays inside, or stays outside a range.
Your own indicator
Custom indicator alerts: any indicator on the chart, including private scripts saved to My scripts.
Several conditions at once
Multiconditional alerts: price and indicator conditions in one alert, which fires when all of them are met.
Set up your first alert
Four steps take you from a condition to a notification. Each step links to the details.- Step 1 of 4Open the alert form
Hover over the chart and click the bell, right-click the chart, or press Alt + A. The Alerts button in the top-right corner opens it too.
- Step 2 of 4Set the condition
Choose price or an indicator as the source, then the criterion and the target. Add more symbols to get the same alert on each of them.
- Step 3 of 4Choose where it reaches you
Open Expand to set how often it fires and when it expires. Then add an email, Telegram, or a webhook, and a message with variables.
- Step 4 of 4Keep track of it
My Alerts shows the status of each alert, pauses or restarts alerts in bulk, and keeps a log of every trigger.
Where notifications go
More ways to work with alerts
Alerts from your AI client
Create, pause, and review alerts in plain language through the TakeProfit MCP server.
Alert lines on the chart
Drag a price alert’s line to a new level, and choose whether lines, inactive alerts, and tickers show.
Messages with live data
Put the ticker, prices, time, and indicator values into the message, as plain text or JSON.
Alerts that place orders
An alert can do more than notify you: attach it to a conditional order and it becomes that order’s trigger, so the order goes to the exchange when the alert fires. You set this up from Order Entry, on the Conditional tab, by choosing Alert instead of Price. Once an alert carries orders, the alert list and the Create/Edit Alert window show them, and lead back into the order form. It is worth looking there before you stop or delete an alert — anything hanging off it stops too.Limits at a glance
Good to know
- Alerts run in the cloud. They fire with the platform closed, and you can open the chart from your phone when one arrives.
- Several symbols make several alerts. One condition on five symbols creates five alerts. If they don’t all fit your limit, the ones that fit are still created.
- A private script is enough. An alert works on your own indicator as soon as it is saved to My scripts, without publishing it.
- Every condition has to be true. A multiconditional alert fires only when all of its conditions are met.
- Deleting an alert keeps its log. Past triggers stay in the Logs tab, so you can still check what fired and when.
- Webhooks come from two IP addresses. If your server sits behind a firewall, allowlist
32.196.192.252and52.70.159.39.
Alert updates are announced in the platform changelog.