How to create and manage TradingView Alerts

Markets move while you are away from your screen. You cannot watch every chart, every hour of the day.

TradingView Alerts help with that. You select a price or technical condition, then receive a notification when that condition occurs. This reduces the need to watch the same chart continuously and brings your attention back to a market when there is something specific you want to review.

This guide explains the main alert types, how to create an alert and what to check before relying on one.

What is a TradingView Alert?

An alert is a notification triggered by a condition you select.

Depending on the tool and your subscription, TradingView Alerts can monitor conditions involving:

• The price of a symbol
• Technical indicators
• Drawing tools
• Pine indicators or strategies
• Chart patterns
• Other supported custom conditions

Alerts do not analyse whether a trade is appropriate. They only identify that your selected condition has been met according to the alert settings.

Price alerts and technical alerts

TradingView separates alerts into two different categories: price alerts and technical alerts. 

Price alerts

Price alerts monitor changes in the price of the chart symbol. For example, you might create an alert for when a market:

• Crosses a selected price
• Moves above or below a selected price
• Enters or exits a specified range
• Moves by a selected amount within a defined period

Available conditions may vary.

Technical alerts

Technical alerts monitor conditions linked to supported technical tools. Depending on the setup, they may be tied to:

• An indicator value
• A custom indicator condition
• A supported drawing object
• A Pine Script
• A strategy
• A recognised chart pattern

The presence of a technical condition does not establish what the market will do next.

Why use TradingView Alerts?

Alerts can support a more structured monitoring process. They may help you:

• Reduce repeated manual chart checking
• Monitor more than one selected market
• Return to a chart when a predefined condition occurs
• Track a technical level you have already identified in your analysis
• Receive notifications through supported channels
• Separate monitoring from decision-making

Creating many alerts without a clear purpose can produce unnecessary noise. Each alert should have a defined reason and a planned review process.

How to create a TradingView Alert in seven steps

TradingView gives you several ways to open the alert creation window. You can:

• Select the Alert button from the top toolbar
• Open the Alerts Manager and select the create button
• Right-click on the chart
• Use a supported drawing tool
• Select the plus button beside the current price on the price scale
• Use the relevant keyboard shortcut

Once the alert window is open, follow these steps.

Step 1: Choose the condition

Select the symbol, indicator or supported tool you want the alert to monitor. Then choose the trigger condition. Read the full condition carefully. Similar choices, such as crossing, crossing up, greater than or entering a range, can produce different results.

Step 2: Set the trigger value

Enter the relevant price, value or other required setting. Check that the decimal point, symbol and market source are correct.

Step 3: Choose how often it can trigger

Depending on the alert, you may be able to select how frequently the notification can occur. The available options may include triggering once, once per bar or according to another supported interval. Consider how the selected frequency relates to the timeframe used in your analysis.

Step 4: Set an expiry

Choose when the alert should stop being active. An alert based on a temporary market event or short-term research question may no longer be useful several weeks later.

Review long-running alerts regularly to make sure the original condition is still relevant.

Step 5: Choose a notification method

TradingView may offer notification methods such as:

• App notification
• Email
• Pop-up
• Sound
• Webhook for supported users and external applications

Notification availability depends on your account, settings, device and subscription.

Step 6: Name the alert

Give the alert a name that explains why it exists. Instead of a generic name such as "Gold alert", consider something more specific, such as:

XAU/USD – review selected resistance area

EUR/USD – price enters research range

Index – revisit after trend-line condition

Avoid writing an intended trade as though the alert itself has confirmed that action.

Step 7: Review and create

Check the:

• Symbol.
• Data source.
• Condition.
• Value.
• Timeframe.
• Trigger frequency.
• Expiry.
• Notification settings.

Then create the alert.

Example: an alert as part of a research routine

Suppose you are researching XAU/USD and have identified a price area you want to review again. You could create an alert for when price reaches or crosses that area.

When the alert occurs, the next step would not automatically be to trade. Instead, you could reopen the chart and assess:

• Current price action
• Recent market news
• Whether the level remains relevant
• Volatility and liquidity conditions
• Your own risk parameters
• Whether the original analysis still applies

The alert returns attention to the chart. It does not replace the analysis that follows.

How to manage existing alerts

Open the TradingView Alerts Manager to view and organise your alerts.

From the manager, you may be able to:

• Review active alerts.
• Edit alert conditions.
• Pause or restart alerts.
• Remove alerts.
• Sort them by symbol, name, creation date or trigger time.
• Review alert history.

Regular reviews help you remove duplicate, expired or no-longer-relevant alerts.

Why an alert may not behave as expected

Several factors can affect how an alert works. Check whether:

• The correct symbol and data source were selected
• The alert condition matches what you intended
• The chosen timeframe is appropriate
• The alert was active when the condition occurred
• Your device or browser allows notifications
• The market data required by the alert is available
• The alert has expired
• You have reached the alert allowance for your plan

Alert behaviour may also depend on how the selected indicator, drawing or script calculates its values.

Use alerts as part of a wider workflow

Alerts work alongside other TradingView features.

A simple workflow could be:

• Add selected symbols to a Watchlist. (See our guide on how to create and use TradingView Watchlists.)
• Use charts and other research tools to identify conditions worth monitoring
• Create a limited number of clearly named alerts
• Use News Flow to review developments connected to the symbol. (See our guide on how to personalise your TradingView News Flow.)
• Reassess the market when an alert occurs

This keeps the alert in its proper role: a monitoring tool within a broader research and risk-management process.

Create your first TradingView Alert

Start with one clearly defined condition. Choose a market you already research, set the condition carefully and decide what you will review if the alert occurs.

Create an Alert →