Alert Recipes

• Price cross — above or below a level, with optional wick-ignore.
• Percent move — X% from a reference price over a time window.
• Volume spike — X× the 20-bar average on a single bar.
• Indicator — any built-in indicator crosses a value (RSI crosses 70, ATR expands past 2×, VWAP touch).
• DOM level — size threshold at a price level resting or getting pulled.
• News keyword — matching headlines hit the feed.
• Study — a custom study's alert condition fires on a bar close.

1. Right-click the price you want on any chart or DOM ladder row.
2. Pick Alert at <price>.
3. A price alert is armed at that level — the direction (above / below) is inferred from where the row sits relative to the market — and it lands in the Alerts panel, opening it for you if it isn't already up.

That's the fast path, and it ignores the trade ARM gate entirely — an alert is a read, not an order. Everything below is the slower, more-configurable path through the alert manager.

Prior-day high/low break — set two price-cross alerts at yesterday's high and low. Wick-ignore on. First break → likely day-type decision point.

Volume-weighted average touch — indicator alert on VWAP with a 0.05% band. Fires every time price mean-reverts to the session VWAP line.

ATR expansion — indicator alert on ATR(14) crossing 1.5× its own 20-bar median. Signals regime shift from range to trend.

Large-size pull — DOM-level alert at any level holding >1,000 lots that gets pulled. Pairs well with iceberg detection visible in the DOM.

Absorption + reversal setup — DOM-level alert on absorption flagged at a level (>5,000 lots traded without price moving 1 tick through). Often reversal or continuation fuel.

Volume spike — 3× 20-bar average volume alert. Filter to sessions only to avoid overnight noise.

When a built-in trigger type doesn't fit, a custom study can emit its own alert condition. Native C++ studies declare alerts through the study SDK's alert() callback — the alert fires when the study's condition is met on a bar close, at most once per bar, no flutter even if the condition oscillates inside the bar.

• FDA approvals — keyword \b(FDA|EMA)\s+(approves|approved|clearance)\b on biotech watchlist. Fires on any regulator-approval headline.
• Tier-one halts — keyword halted with source filter set to primary exchanges. Catches single-name trading halts within seconds.
• Insider filings — keyword \b(Form 4|insider (sell|buy)|10b5-1)\b. Catches SEC filings that move small caps.

• In-app sound — a tiered cue tuned to the alert's urgency; an ordinary level break rings the info floor, a stop-out gets its own louder one.
• The spoken squawk — the ship's voice calls the break aloud (“ES through seventy-two fifty”), coalesced per symbol so one print tripping several alerts speaks once.
• Desktop notification — a native OS notification that surfaces even when the terminal is minimized, plus an in-app toast and a status-bar flash.
• Email — rate-limited per alert.
• Webhook — POST a JSON body to any URL.

Webhook payload:

Wire the webhook to Discord, Telegram, or your own server to fire further downstream actions. The payload is stable — additive changes only.

Each alert has a cooldown (default 60 s) that prevents a single flickering level from firing ten times a minute during a scalp. Set global quiet hours in settings — all channels except in-app sound mute during the window, and the manager highlights alerts that fired during quiet hours for morning review.

• Free — 10 active alerts, 50 fires per day.
• Pro — 500 active alerts, 10,000 fires per day.

• Alerts panel — the manager UI.
• Custom Studies — native C++ studies that emit alerts.