Getting started with technical alerts

On TradingView, you can set alerts for drawing tools, indicators, strategies, and chart patterns. These notify you about changes in an indicator's readings, when the price breaks a chart pattern, and many other conditions that trigger a technical alert.

CONTENTS:

What are technical alerts
Alerts on indicators
Alerts on custom Pine scripts
Alerts for Pine strategies
Alerts on drawing tools
Alerts on chart patterns
Alerts on Fibonacci drawing tools

What are technical alerts

An alert is considered technical when it's set for an indicator, drawing, or strategy. When you configure alerts, you can select from many different operators that trigger them.

Technical alerts use all the available operators:

Crossing / Crossing up / Crossing down: Trigger when the value reaches a certain level
Greater than / Less than: Trigger when the value surpasses a certain level
Entering/Exiting channel: Trigger when the value reaches a channel's boundaries from a certain direction
Inside/Outside channel: Trigger when the value moves into or out a channel's boundaries
Moving up / down / up % / down %: Trigger when the asset's price rises or falls by a certain amount within a specified number of bars

! Note: Alerts using Channel and Moving operators are always technical. Other operators can work with price alerts unless they are used with indicators, drawing tools, or strategies.

Alerts on indicators

You can set alerts for over a thousand TradingView indicators, including community-created ones. These alerts notify you about indicators reaching or surpassing the threshold you set for your trades.

To get the most out of these alerts, we suggest you examine your Supercharts thoroughly in the past and spot where the indicator has reached those levels you want to be notified about. Also, you can try backtesting to confirm the viability of your trading strategy.

There’s a couple of ways to create an indicator alert, depending on what's comfortable for you:

Right-click on the indicator and click "Add alert…"
Open Alert manager, click on the "Create alert" button, select the desired indicator in the "Condition" dropdown

Then you'll need to select a built-in preset or customize your own condition to set it up.

! Note: If indicator parameters are changed after an alert is created, the alert will still trigger using the old settings.

Alerts on custom Pine scripts

For advanced customization, you can configure script alerts using Pine Script® — TradingView’s programming language for traders. Or you can define your own trigger settings using alertcondition and alert functions.

For the alert() function, unlike other types of alerts, the triggering frequency and the message sent with script alerts are controlled by the "alert()" function calls in the script, not through the "Create Alert" dialog.

If you want to dive deeper into using the "alert()" function in scripts, use the Pine Reference Manual and the Pine User Manual.

Alerts for Pine strategies

To create an alert for a strategy, you need to select one in the "Indicators, metrics, and strategies" window. There, open the "Technicals" tab, and select "Strategies."

When a strategy is added to your chart, in the "Condition" field, select one of the options:

Order fills and alert() function calls: The created alerts will trigger on order fills and "alert()" events
Order fills only: The alert only triggers on order fills, like an ordinary strategy alert
alert() function calls only: The alert only triggers on "alert()" events, like a script alert on an indicator

Alerts on drawing tools

Currently, we support alerts for lines, channels, rectangle and Anchored VWAP. The first three you can find in the trend line tools and geometric shapes on the left toolbar.

For lines:

Crossing
Crossing up / Crossing down
Greater than / Less than

For channels:

Entering channel / Exiting channel
Inside channel / Outside channel

For rectangle:

Entering rectangle
Exiting rectangle
Inside rectangle
Outside rectangle

You can find Anchored VWAP in the "Forecasting and measurement tools" on the left toolbar.

Alerts on chart patterns

You can set alerts for automatically detected chart patterns. These alerts identify pattern breakouts, recognize new formations, and notify you about a pattern reaching its target.

To set up a chart pattern alert, ensure that it's added to the chart:

Click on the "Indicators, metrics, and strategies" on the upper toolbar
Go to the "Technicals" tab
select "Patterns"

! Note: You need to select a chart pattern manually to set an alert for it. Alerts don't work for "All chart patterns."

Alerts on Fibonacci drawing tools

Fib retracement alerts

How to set up an alert:

Select two extreme points (the low and high of the trend).
Right-click on the drawn instrument line and select "Add alert on Fib retracement".

You may also left-click and choose “Add Alert”:

Condition examples:

Crossing: The alert will be triggered when the price crosses any of the active levels.
Entering channel: If you want to know when the price has entered a range between specific ratios (for example, between 0.618 and 0.382).

In the Style settings, enable the display of levels. You can add custom text (directly on the drawn instrument) to each level (for example, "Strong resistance"), which will be displayed in the alert message.

Log scale

If you're analyzing highly volatile assets (such as crypto), be sure to check the "Fib levels based on log scale" box in the Style tab. This will change the level calculation, and the alert will trigger at a more mathematically sound level for the log chart.

Trend-based fib extension alerts

How to set up an alert:

Three points are required: the beginning of the movement (1), the end of the movement (2) and the end of the correction (3).

Right-click on the drawn instrument and select "Add alert on trend-based fib extension".

Setup: Since the extension is often used for profit taking, it is recommended to set the condition to "Greater Than" or "Crossing" for target levels of 0.618, 1.0, or 1.618.

The bottom line

TradingView's technical alerts give you the power to monitor changes in indicators, Pine scripts and strategies, drawing tools, and chart patterns. You can set them to trigger based on specific conditions, such as crossing a threshold, entering or exiting a channel, or meeting indicator-based criteria.