Alerts
Alerts arrive by email. The kinds of alert, when each one fires, and what Free includes.
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An alert is a rule on one stock that sends you an email when it becomes true. You set one on the stock report or from Portfolio. Free keeps 5 price alerts; the other kinds are part of Pro.
Kinds
| Alert | Fires when |
|---|---|
| Price level | A published price is above or below the level you set. |
| Call changed | Our call on the stock changes, for example hold to trim. |
| Earnings in 24 hours | The company reports within the next day. |
| Unusual move | The stock lands on the day's list of unusual movers. |
| RSI extreme | The 14-day RSI reaches an overbought or oversold extreme. |
| News burst | Many more headlines than usual name the stock. |
How a price alert behaves
- It is checked when the alert job runs, against the latest fetched price. It is not checked continuously.
- A price that crosses your level and comes back between two checks will not fire the alert.
- You can keep several price levels on one stock. Setting exactly the same alert twice is refused instead of creating a duplicate.
- Deleting an alert deactivates it. It stops firing straight away.
Delivery
Alerts arrive by email at the address on your Google account. Fired alerts also appear in the briefing under Needs you. The Alerts switch in Account turns alert emails off without deleting the alerts.
On Free
Free keeps 5 price alerts by email. A fired alert frees its slot. The other kinds (a stock reaching our level, a changed call, earnings coming up) are Pro; on Free the same events appear in your briefing and morning email for your covered stocks.
Alerts or an agent
Use an alert for one condition on one stock. Use an agent when you want the same check across everything you hold, or when you want a written record of every check, including the days nothing happened.
Read next
- Agents and their triggersAn agent is a standing job: one rule, checked for you on a schedule, an event or a price. The ten templates and exactly when each one reports.
- The briefing by emailWhich emails exist, who gets each one today, and how to turn them off.
- Where the data comes from and how fresh it isEvery data set in the product, its source, how to tell how old it is and what it does not cover.
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