What makes an alert useful
Most price alerts fire too often to be useful. An alert earns its place when it tells you something you could not have known from the price alone: the regime has changed, a classified news item affects a name you hold, or a scanner has found a setup in a stock on your watchlist.
What you can be alerted on
- Price moves. A one-day move at or above a threshold you set.
- Earnings. An earnings date within a number of days you set.
- Score changes. An Atradian Score that moves by a set number of points in a day.
- Insider purchases. An open-market insider buy filed recently. On the ASX, this includes director buys reported on Appendix 3Y.
- New research reports. A new deep-research report on a symbol in the last day.
- Unusual options activity. A large amount of unusual options premium traded on a symbol that day.
- Regime flips. The equity or crypto market regime changes. These are market-level, not per stock.
How alerts are delivered
- Email, which you can switch on or off.
- Telegram, once you link your account with a one-time code. Choose a daily digest or individual messages.
- Webhook, for Elite users who want alerts sent into their own system.
Real-time alerts are a Pro and Elite feature. See the pricing page for what each plan includes.
Keeping alerts useful
Watch fewer names. Turn on only the alert types you act on. If an alert does not change what you do, switch it off. An alert is a prompt to look, not a trading instruction.