Price alerts let you monitor specific changes in quote prices. You can create and save different sets of alerts separately, and activate all or some of the alerts. When an alert is triggered, it is recorded in the Alert Log Window. When the alert criteria is met, you can also choose to have the alert e-mailed, pop up an alert display, set up an audio and voice alert, or create an alert that will activate a program.
To Set A Price Alert
- From the Main Menu Bar, select Quotes/Price Alerts
- Select Add Alert
- Double click in Symbol Field and enter the symbol you want to follow
- Do the same for Above and/or Below values
- You can change the field from Last by clicking on it and selecting from the drop down list.
- If you want an Alert Message to show, you can enter it by double clicking on Alert Message
- To Enable the Alert, click on the box under Enable
To change any Alert, simply click on the field in the Alert and make the change.
Entering Price Alerts
Alerts can be entered one of five ways:
- Equal to – Type the same price in both the above and below selections
- Ex: @ES@1 >= 1350 and <= 1350 – The S&P E-mini must be equal to 1350
- Equal to or greater than – Type the price in the Above entry
- Ex: QNG@1 >= 3.50 – the price of natural gas must be equal to or greater than 3.50
- Equal to or less than – Type the price in the Below entry
- Ex: @C@1 <= 700 – the price of corn must be equal to or less than 700
- Exclusive OR condition – The alert would trigger when the current price is outside of the price range. One of the conditions must be met.
- Type the larger price criteria in the Above entry and the smaller price criteria in the Below entry.
- Ex: QCL@1 86 in Above and 84 in Below – the current crude price must be above 86 OR below 84
- Exclusive AND condition – The alert would trigger when the current price is within the price range. Both conditions must be met.
- Type the lower price in the Above entry and the higher price in the Below entry.
- Ex: @C@1 >= 1345 in Above and 1350 in Below – the current corn price must be above 1345 AND below 1355
Current Value
- Use this line to see what the current value of each symbol you are using in the Price Alerts set above.
- Click on each alert to see each symbol or formula.
Action
- Enable how you want to be alerted when a Price Alert is met.
- Show Alert– will pop up an alert log right over the top of whatever you are working on in order to let you know the alert was met
- Email – you can send yourself an e-mail when the alert criteria is met.
- NOTE: You must set up your e-mail information in General Settings / Alerts
- Audio– an audio tone will sound when an alert is met
- Checking the box next to Audio will enable this funtion.
- Enter the Wave File name in the box or click on the “…” to browse to select it.
- Frequency:
- Once – The alert will be triggered only once, when the criteria is met – the alert is then deactivated – if you want to re-activate it, click the check box to enable it.
- Every – The alert will be triggered every time the criteria is met – it’s not deactivated until you manually uncheck it.
- Retrace – The alert will be triggered once when the criteria is met. It will not be deactivated but will not be triggered again until the price goes above or below the criteria and then meets the criteria again. (The system default is Retrace)
- Click Close to save and exit.
Other Button Functions
- Delete Alert
- Highlight the Line and Click this button to delete Price Alert.
- Disable All
- Clicking this button will turn off all the Price Alerts in this screen
- Enable All
- Clicking this button will turn on all the Price Alerts in this screen
- Clear All
- Clicking this button will delete all the Price Alerts in this screen
- Show Log
- Clicking this button will bring up this Log of all the Alerts to date
- Open
- If you have saved Price Alerts, click this button to open them
- Save
- Click this button to save your Price Alert for future use