Introduction to TradingView alerts
Alerts help you stay on top of key market events by sending timely notifications. They can be super simple, for example, tracking when Bitcoin reaches a certain price. Or advanced — like those based on indicators and strategies involving multiple calculations. And all of these options are available on Supercharts.
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Why use TradingView alerts
Markets move fast, and trading requires timely reactions. Our alerts can notify you not only about price changes but also about many other events, keeping you informed of changes as they happen.
Let's take a look at some of the key benefits of alerts.
- Instant notification: With tailored alerts, you can react to market changes in an instant
- Speed and reliability: Alerts run on powerful servers, ensuring fast and stable performance
- Time efficiency: There's no need to spend extra time tracking market movements
- Cross-device support: Alerts work on the web version, as well as in the desktop and mobile apps
- Insight and learning: See how the market responds to events and improve your strategies over time
- Advanced customization: With multiple built-in and advanced conditions, you can tailor alerts to your trading strategy
- Pine Script® integration: Alerts are fully compatible with Pine Script — TradingView's programming language for traders.
Alert types
You may follow different trading strategies and use unique tools, but the instruments you use will generally fall into one of three categories — indicators, drawings, and/or chart types. Our alerts work with each of these and can be configured to notify you promptly of market changes.
To better understand how alerts work, let's see how they are categorized:
- Price alerts notify you of chart symbol price changes
- Technical alerts notify you of value changes or when a custom condition is met for drawing tools, Pine indicators and strategies, or chart patterns
- Watchlist alerts create a single alert for an entire watchlist, using the same condition for each symbol. Each alert operates independently for every symbol in the list
Price alerts are triggered when the symbol's price:
- Reaches a certain level
- Exceeds or falls below a certain level
Technical alerts are triggered when a value:
- Reaches, exceeds, or falls below a certain level
- Reaches or exceeds a range's boundaries from a certain direction
- Moves up or down by a particular amount within a specified number of bars
How to access alerts
Every TradingViewer can create alerts to respond to market changes in real time. Just head to Supercharts from the dropdown menu and choose the symbol you want to create an alert for.
Alerts can be created on data series, indicators, chart patterns, strategies, and drawing tools.
Alerts for data series are independent of time intervals. For other types, the interval does matter, as it affects indicator calculations.
For example, if you want to know when NVDA stock hits a certain price, choose NVDA in the "Symbol search" menu.
When your Superchart is displaying NVDA, you can set the alert using one of the following methods:
- Press ALT + A for Windows or ⌥ + A for macOS
- Press the "Create alert" button on the upper toolbar
- Access the Alert manager on the right toolbar, then click the "Create alert" button
- Right-click on the chart → Add alert on…
- Right-click on a line or channel to create an alert for these instruments
- Right-click on the price scale and enable the "Plus" button. It will appear next to the scale and follow your cursor, allowing you to create an alert and showing the exact alert value
! Note: If you change an indicator’s parameters after creating an alert, it will still be triggered using the original settings.
To create or modify alerts more efficiently, use hotkeys. You can access the Keyboard shortcuts page from the chart by clicking your avatar, then selecting the “Keyboard shortcuts” option.
How to receive alert notifications
You can always choose how and where you want to be notified when an alert is triggered:
- App notification: Download the latest TradingView mobile app to get notified on your phone
- Toast notification: When enabled, a pop-up message will appear even if you are browsing in another tab. For this feature to work correctly, allow TradingView to show desktop notifications
- Email: Alerts are sent to the email address from your profile settings
- Webhook URL: Sends a POST request to a certain URL
- Sound: Once an alert is triggered, you'll hear a sound notification
- Plain text: A free method for sending text messages to your phone. This site provides an up-to-date list date of international email providers that can be used to send text messages to phones
TradingView alerts in a nutshell
Alerts are designed to help you navigate through the many assets and indicators supporting your trading. Fine-tune them to get informed when an anticipated market movement occurs. Until then, save the time you spend following the market by reading news or studying fundamentals in screeners.
TradingView alerts work across various types of data — including price movement, custom indicator conditions, strategies, and so on. Get notified immediately when a condition is met.
There are 10+ trigger types to choose from: crossings, channels, movements, and others. Study alerts, get notified on any device, and stay sharp in the tradingverse.
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