- “Notify me when EUR/USD returns to my London-session demand zone.”
- “Alert me if GBP/USD sweeps the Asian-session high and closes back below it.”
- “Warn me before high-impact USD news.”
- “Remind me when I have reached my daily trade limit.”
- “Tell me when price approaches my planned entry, not after it has already moved.”
The most useful alerts are specific, actionable, and tied to a pre-defined trading plan. An alert should tell you when to review a setup—not instruct you to enter a position automatically.
What you can monitor
Custom Alerts can combine market conditions, timing, and personal trading rules into a single monitoring request.Price & Levels
Track a symbol when it reaches, crosses, rejects, or approaches a specific price or marked zone.
Market Structure
Watch for potential liquidity sweeps, breaks in structure, range boundaries, session highs and lows, or return-to-zone conditions.
Volatility & Sessions
Monitor active trading sessions, unusual movement, or conditions that may change the quality of a setup.
Economic Events
Receive advance awareness for relevant scheduled economic releases and high-impact news windows.
Trading Discipline
Create process reminders around risk, daily limits, review routines, and conditions where you choose not to trade.
AI-Assisted Rules
Describe your setup in plain language and let the AI Advisory Suite help structure it into a clearer alert definition.
Create an alert
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Open Custom Alerts
From the AI Advisory Suite or your workspace, select Custom Alerts and choose Create alert.
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Choose what to monitor
Select the instrument, market condition, or trading-process event you want to track. For market alerts, start with a symbol and timeframe appropriate to your plan.
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Define the trigger
Add a price, zone, event window, structural condition, or discipline rule. You can build the rule manually or describe it to the AI in plain language.
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Add context and guardrails
Include the session, directional bias, invalidation level, news restrictions, or notes that explain why the alert matters.
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Select notification preferences
Choose your preferred delivery channels (In-App Activity Feed, Browser Push Notifications, or Verified Email Alerts) and review the alert summary before saving.
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Review when notified
When an alert fires, return to your chart and evaluate current conditions. Confirm structure, liquidity, risk, and news context before taking any action.
Build better alert rules with AI
The AI Advisory Suite can help translate discretionary trading language into a more structured monitoring plan. Start with what you already know: the pair, the level or zone, the session, and the evidence you need before considering a trade.Example prompts
AI-generated alert suggestions should always be reviewed before saving. Make sure the symbol, timeframe, price levels, session, and risk language accurately reflect your own plan.
Alert types
Price alerts
Price alerts are best for planned levels, entry areas, invalidation points, and targets. Typical conditions include:- Price reaches or crosses a defined level
- Price enters a marked zone
- Price moves within a specified distance of a level
- Price breaks above or below a range boundary
- Price returns to a prior area of interest
Structure and liquidity alerts
Structure alerts help you monitor the conditions around a setup rather than reacting only to a price print. You may use them to watch for:- Asian, London, or New York session highs and lows
- Range expansion or return into a range
- Potential liquidity sweeps
- Market structure shifts
- Break-and-retest behavior
- Price interaction with a pre-marked premium or discount area
Economic-event alerts
Economic alerts help you stay aware of scheduled releases that may affect volatility, spreads, or market behavior. Use them to:- Receive advance notice of high-impact releases for a currency
- Avoid opening new positions within your news restriction window
- Reassess an existing setup before a scheduled event
- Distinguish normal price action from event-driven movement
Process and risk reminders
The strongest alert system is not only market-facing. It also protects your decision process. Examples include:- Start-of-session preparation reminders
- Daily maximum-trade reminders
- Post-loss cooldown prompts
- End-of-session journal reminders
- Weekly trade-review reminders
- Prompts to stop trading after your defined risk limit is reached
Alert anatomy
A complete alert should answer five questions:
This structure prevents alerts from becoming vague notifications with no decision framework behind them.
Managing active alerts
Open Custom Alerts to review active, triggered, paused, and completed alerts. For each alert, keep the following current:- Status: Active, paused, or archived
- Market context: Current bias, relevant session, and event restrictions
- Price areas: Update zones when your analysis changes
- Expiry: Remove alerts for invalidated or outdated ideas
- Notes: Record why the alert was created and what happened after it fired
When should I pause an alert?
When should I pause an alert?
Pause an alert when you are unavailable to review the market, when a major scheduled event changes the context, or when the original setup is no longer part of your current plan. A paused alert preserves the configuration without continuing to notify you.
When should I delete an alert?
When should I delete an alert?
Delete or archive an alert when its thesis has been invalidated, the relevant session has passed, the level is no longer meaningful, or you no longer intend to trade that setup.
Why did I receive an alert but decide not to trade?
Why did I receive an alert but decide not to trade?
This is often the correct outcome. Alerts identify a condition worth reviewing; they are not trade signals. Price may reach a level without showing the confirmation, liquidity behavior, risk-to-reward profile, or news environment required by your plan.
Can an alert execute a trade for me?
Can an alert execute a trade for me?
No. Custom Alerts are advisory and informational. You remain responsible for every trading decision, order, position, and risk-management action.
Notification hygiene
Too many alerts can create noise, urgency, and reactive decision-making. Keep your alert list intentional.Recommended practices
- Create alerts only for levels and scenarios you have already reviewed.
- Use one alert per meaningful idea rather than multiple near-identical price alerts.
- Add an expiry or manually retire session-specific alerts.
- Pair entry-area alerts with invalidation or news-awareness reminders.
- Review triggered alerts in your journal to determine whether they improved your process.
- Keep delivery channels enabled only when you can act responsibly on the information.
If an alert arrives when you cannot perform a full review, treat it as information—not a reason to make a rushed decision from a notification.