Month: February 2018

Alerts is a premium feature on chartink.com that allows users to receive notifications when stocks matching their specified criteria are identified by our screeners. These notifications can be delivered via Desktop/mobile web, SMS, or email and are continuously monitored to ensure that users are promptly notified of any new matches. In this guide, we will walk you through the process of setting up and managing alerts on our platform.

CREATING & MANAGING ALERT

For any screener you want to create an alert for, click the “Create Alert” button (right beside save as). If you’re still looking for good screeners, we suggest you start with our top-loved scans, which contain a good mix of intraday/swing and short-term scans.

Alert settings :

Please find below a thorough explanation of the alert box functionality:

Alert setting box

1) Alert Name –

Here, you can enter a custom name for your alert. This helps you easily identify and manage different alerts later. You may also use the same name as your scan if preferred.

2) Schedule / Frequency

The frequency option allows you to decide how often the alert scan should run.
You can configure alerts to trigger at intervals such as every:

• 1 / 2 / 3 / 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 30 / 60 / 120 / 240 minutes
• Market Open
• Market Close

For more information on the frequency of alert execution, please refer to our FAQ.

3) Minimum stocks to alerts

This option allows you to set the minimum number of stocks/results that must match the scan conditions before an alert is triggered.

For example:

• If the Minimum Matches value is set to 5, the alert will only trigger when at least 5 stocks satisfy the scan conditions.
• If only 2 or 3 stocks match, no alert will be sent.

4) After Trigger – 

This setting determines what should happen after the alert condition is triggered.

• Continue – The alert will continue monitoring and triggering whenever conditions are met again.
• Pause – The alert will stop automatically after the first successful trigger.

5) Duplicates (Unique / Duplicate Notifications)

Unique

With the Unique option enabled, you will receive only one alert per stock for the day, even if the stock matches the scan conditions multiple times.

Example: If a stock triggers the alert at 9:30 AM and again at 1:00 PM, you will receive only the first notification.

Duplicate

The Duplicate option allows repeated notifications for the same stock whenever it matches the scan conditions again during the day.

6) Delivery / Notification Methods

This section allows you to choose how you want to receive alert notifications.

Available notification methods include:

• Email
• SMS
• Desktop/Mobile (Web) Notifications
• WhatsApp Notifications

You can select one or multiple delivery methods as per your preference.

7) View Triggers

The “View Triggers” option allows you to see which stocks or scan conditions have already triggered the alert.

8) Alert Display Type (Flyout / Inline Banner)

This option allows you to choose how alert notifications should appear on the screen.

• Flyout – Displays alerts as popup-style notifications.
• Inline Banner – Displays alerts within the platform interface as a banner.

9) Webhooks

The webhook feature allows alerts to automatically send data or messages to external applications whenever an alert is triggered.

When activated, the system sends an HTTP POST request to the provided webhook URL.
This enables automated communication between platforms and can be used for:

• Algo trading
• Third-party integrations
• Automation tools
• Custom workflows

10) Payload Columns

Payload Columns allow you to customize which stock data fields should be included in the webhook response or alert payload.

For example, you can include:

• Stock Name
• LTP
• Volume
• Indicator Values

Viewing alerts –

All alerts created can be viewed on the Alerts Dashboard.

Alert Triggers/HISTORY –

A trigger lets you know when alerts for screeners have been triggered, and new stocks have been filtered. You will receive alerts via email or SMS when notifications have been sent. You can access the alert triggers page by clicking any alerts on the Alerts Dashboard.

Frequently asked questions

Kindly refer to our FAQs for alerts here.

Feel free to reach us at [email protected] for any doubts.

How to create alerts?

We’ve created a step-by-step guide on how to create alerts across any screener.

How many stocks are scanned for alerts?

We default to running scans for all NSE stocks unless you change a scan to run for a watchlist, nifty 50, nifty 100. The number of stocks scanned for is dependent on the scan definition.

When are intraday, daily, weekly and monthly alerts run?

• • Intraday – An alert for 1 minute starts running at 9:16am(Lowest time interval). Considering the latest data as of 9:15:59am, the next run would be at 9:17am.
  • Market open – Runs at 9:20am considering the latest data as of 9:19:59am.
  • Market close – Runs between 6pm-7pm daily
  • Weekly – Runs every Friday between 6pm-7pm
  • Monthly – Runs on the last day of the month between 6pm-7pm

Are the alerts live[in real-time]?

Yes, our scans run on the latest live data available eg. If you have configured to run a scan every 5 minutes, the first scan would be at 9:20am, which will be based on the data as of 9:19:59am. As we process dozens of scans for every user throughout the day, there could be a delay of up to 1 minute while you are notified.

How frequently would I be notified of alerts?

We send our alert notifications based on alert configuration. If you’ve set an alert to run every 5 minutes, it shall run at 9:20am, 09:25am, and 09:30am. We send you notifications ONLY when we find new stocks the scans to avoid spamming your SMS/mailbox.

How many alerts I shall receive?

We provide a total of 2,000 SMS & email credits in a month, which are used while sending alerts. These allow you to receive more than 90+ alerts per day. Notification credits(SMS & email) will be used at an alert level and independent of the number of stocks filtered in a scan. If an alert notifies you about 50 stocks, it will use a single notification credit.

What happens when your NOTIFICATION credits finish?

You can purchase additional SMS or Email credits. Visit your subscription dashboard to do so.

HOW DO WE SEE ALL THE ALERTS CONFIGURED?

Do you provide the scanners, or does the subscriber have to use his own scanners?