Alerts

Choose a quick tour or learn alerts step by step, with practical examples and annotated screenshots.

• Alerts: choose how you want to learn

  Take a quick tour or follow practical, illustrated guides to build, deliver, and manage ForecastCity alerts.

• Quick tour: build and check an alert

  A practical tour for experienced chart users: choose a condition, set timing and delivery, then verify and manage the alert.

• Step-by-step guides: learn alerts by example

  Choose a practical outcome or follow a complete learning sequence from your first price alert to advanced conditions and troubleshooting.

• Create your first price alert

  Set a price level, choose when it should trigger, and find the saved alert on your chart.

• Monitor price moves and price ranges

  Create examples for a percentage move, a move in price units, and entry into a fixed price channel.

• Create alerts on chart lines

  Select a manual line or a fixed forecast guide-line and monitor a touch, approach, break, or bounce.

• Monitor a drawing zone or Fibonacci level

  Use a rectangle for zone entry and a Fibonacci drawing for alerts at a selected retracement or extension ratio.

• Build RSI, moving-average, and ATR alerts

  Compare an indicator with a value or another indicator, using three practical alert examples.

• Use MACD, Bollinger, and Stochastic conditions

  Select the exact indicator output to monitor and configure a completed-candle example for each indicator.

• Create a volume-above-average alert

  Notice unusually high completed-candle volume and optionally combine it with a price or indicator event.

• Create candlestick-pattern alerts

  Select candle patterns, choose an optional trend filter, and monitor completion on your chosen timeframe.

• Combine conditions with parentheses

  Give every row its own and or or, see the parentheses the editor draws because and is checked before or, and group rows yourself with ( ).

• Understand timeframes, events and repeat alerts

  See how a condition timeframe differs from trigger timing, and why a condition that remains true may not fire again.

• Set alert timing, expiration and active hours

  Choose a trigger frequency, distinguish forecast source timeframes from confirmation intervals, and limit alerts to useful hours.

• Watch for a new forecast direction or pivot

  Create an alert for a new 4CastMachine AI forecast direction or pivot, tell an event from a current direction, and combine it with other conditions.

• Watch price approach or enter a forecast zone

  Select the correct source timeframe and Buy or Sell zone, then choose entry, approach or candle-close confirmation.

• Combine forecast timeframes, zones and technical conditions

  Build one alert from current directions and recorded events, then understand AND, OR and the alert cycle.

• Choose where your alert arrives

  Connect your devices and Telegram, choose email or MetaTrader delivery, and preview the browser sound.

• Customize alert messages and webhook delivery

  Write one clear alert message, insert supported variables, and choose Raw JSON, Discord or Slack for a webhook.

• Organize alerts with setups, groups and watchlists

  Find and edit saved alerts, save a setup you can reuse without creating an alert, mute a group and link a setup to a named watchlist.

• Adjust alert lines, list details, and sound

  Find alert settings, move a saved price level on the chart, and control the information and sound you see.

• Review the alert log and find why an alert stayed quiet

  Separate a missing trigger from a delivery problem, read captured forecast evidence and save an eligible observation to the journal.

• Prepare and manage alerts with AI Trading Coach

  Describe a price or technical alert in plain English, review the proposal, and confirm the exact action.