Setting up trading alerts with autoscans
Let your screeners watch the market for you: create an autoscan in two clicks, get an e-mail as soon as an asset matches, and avoid noise with a few best practices.
The market does not wait for you to be available. A perfect setup can appear while you work, sleep or simply live your life, and manually re-running your screeners ten times a day is neither sustainable nor healthy. That is exactly what autoscans are for: they run your screeners automatically and notify you by e-mail as soon as an asset meets your conditions. This guide shows how to set them up and, more importantly, how to get useful alerts rather than a stream of ignored notifications.
Why alerts: step away from the screen
Staying glued to the charts is counterproductive twice over. First, you end up seeing signals everywhere: the more you watch, the more reasons to trade you find, and over-trading is the classic beginner mistake. Second, constant monitoring is exhausting, and tired decisions are bad decisions. Alerts flip the logic: you define your criteria once, calmly, and the market comes to you only when there is something worth seeing. Your screen time goes into analyzing candidates, not waiting.
Creating an autoscan: two choices, that is all
An autoscan takes seconds to configure, because it only asks for two decisions:
- The screener to run: any of your saved screeners, with its rules and timeframes.
- The universe to watch: the full market (all crypto pairs, for example), a category or index (S&P 500, CAC 40, ETFs…), or one of your watchlists.
And that is it: no frequency to set, no schedule to maintain. The autoscan automatically re-runs at every candle close of the timeframe used by the screener. A daily screener is re-evaluated once a day at the close; a 1-hour screener, every hour. This close synchronization matters: rules are evaluated on completed candles, avoiding the false signals of a candle still forming.
Receiving and acting on e-mail alerts
When a scan finds assets matching your rules, you receive an e-mail listing the results. From there, open each asset's chart to check the context before any decision: an alert is an invitation to analyze, not a buy order. Keep the full-process reflex : the alert flags the candidate, your trading plan decides the entry, position size and stop loss.
Every run with matches is also stored in your scan history. Open a result's detail page to create a list of the matched assets, then browse them one by one on the chart from the side panel.
Best practices: fewer, better alerts
The quality of an alert system comes down to one thing: are you still reading them a month in? Two principles will spare you alert fatigue.
- Selective screeners: a screener returning fifty assets at every close produces noise, not information. Tighten the rules until an alert is an event : a few serious candidates beat a list you no longer read.
- A timeframe matched to your style: there is no point being alerted every hour if you swing trade on the daily : you will receive signals you will never act on. Align your autoscans' timeframe with the timeframe of your decisions.
Test your screener manually for a few days before automating it: if it already returns too many results in manual scans, it will drown you as an autoscan. Only automate what has proven its selectivity.
How many autoscans per plan
The number of simultaneous autoscans (also called bots) depends on your plan: 1 autoscan on the free Position trading plan, 3 on the Swing trading plan (€12.99/month) and 10 on the Day trading plan (€24.99/month), which also gets server execution priority : useful when every minute counts on intraday timeframes. To start out, a single well-tuned autoscan on a daily screener is more than enough to cover the essentials.
Once your alerts are in place, the loop is complete: your screener defines what you are looking for, the autoscan monitors the market continuously, and you only step in to analyze candidates and apply your plan. It is the healthiest way to stay on top of the markets without them taking over your day.
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