2. Creating & Editing Alerts

There are two ways to create an alert: a one-click shortcut from the price axis for simple price alerts, and the full dialog for everything else. Both end up in the same place — the Alerts sidebar.

Quick-create from the price axis

Move your cursor over the chart and a + button appears at the edge of the price axis, tracking the crosshair. Click it to instantly create a Price Crossing <that price> alert at the level under your cursor. This is the fastest way to set a "tell me if price reaches here" alert.

Once created, the alert appears as a horizontal line on the chart that you can fine-tune (see below).

The new-alert dialog

Click + in the Alerts sidebar (or edit an existing alert) to open the dialog. It is organized top to bottom:

• Condition — one or more rows describing what to watch. Each row compares a left side to a right side with an operator (Crossing, Crossing Up, Crossing Down, Greater Than, Less Than). This is the heart of an alert and is covered in Alert Conditions & Indicator Comparisons. Use + Add condition to require several things at once.
• Trigger — how often the alert may fire while its condition holds.
• Expiration — Open-ended, End of day, 1 week, 1 month, or a custom date/time.
• Message — an optional note attached to notifications.
• Notifications — the channels that deliver the alert (toast, browser, sound, webhook) and whether to evaluate only during the regular session.

Trigger, expiration, and notifications are explained in Notifications, Triggered Log & Managing Alerts.

Save with Create (or Save when editing). Cancel discards your changes.

Working with alert lines on the chart

Price-based alerts (a price-side comparison against a fixed value) are drawn as a dashed horizontal line in the crosshair color, with a label showing the live price:

• Drag the line to move the level. The alert updates to the new price and its tracking restarts, so a fresh crossing is required to fire. A price tag follows the line on the axis while you drag.
• Double-click the line's label to open the alert in the dialog for full editing.
• Delete the alert from the small ✕ on the line, or from the sidebar row.

Alerts whose condition is not a single price level (for example Volume Greater Than or an indicator-vs-indicator comparison) do not draw a line, but they still appear and are managed in the sidebar.

Editing, enabling, and removing

From a row in the Alerts sidebar (hover to reveal the actions) you can:

• Edit — reopen the dialog to change any setting. Saving an edit restarts the alert's tracking.
• Pause / resume — temporarily disable an alert without deleting it; a disabled alert keeps its settings but does not evaluate.
• Snooze — silence an alert for a chosen period, after which it resumes automatically (the snooze survives a page reload).
• Stop / restart — stop a one-time alert that has fired, or restart it to watch again.
• Clone — duplicate an alert as a starting point for a similar one.
• Delete — remove the alert permanently.

Next steps

Now build the condition that decides when an alert fires.

Next: Alert Conditions & Indicator Comparisons