Alerts Guide

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.

Alerts FAQ

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?

We provide a alerts dashboard that allows you to configure and manage your active alerts.

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

You can add alerts on any of the 1,50,000+ screeners‘ available on the site or create your own.

IS THERE FREE TRIAL AVAILABLE?

We provide all our other tools(scans, charts) free to use on our site. Alerts are resource intensive and is also supported by external services, including sms/email, which include additional costs’. Hence, we don’t provide a trial for the same.

Fundamental filters now avaliable!

Scans can now be created using a mix of Fundamental & Technical indicators. Fundamental parameters in scan can be validated against our fundamental page.

Example fundamental scans can be found here. We have the following list of fundamental indicators as of now:

Results for Consolidated figures in Rs. Cr.

    1. Face Value
    2. Reserves
    3. Dividend
    4. Book Value
    5. Yearly PE Ratio
    6. Yearly PC Ratio
    7. Sales Turnover[yearly]
    8. Net Profit[yearly]
    9. Net Profit Variance[yr]
    10. Net Profit[quarter]
    11. Net Profit Variance[qr]
    12. Earning Per Share[EPS]
    13. Prev Year EPS
    14. Cash Per Share[yr]
    15. Cash Per Share[qr]
    16. Cash per share[mt]
    17. Net Sales[quarter]
    18. Price to Book Value
    19. Networth
    20. BSE Value in lakhs
    21. NSE Value in lakhs
    22. Market Cap
    23. Operating profit margin[yr]
    24. Operating profit margin[qr]
    25. Gross profit margin
    26. Gross Block
    27. Total Loans
    28. Advance Given By Bank
    29. Net non performing assets
    30. TTM – Trailing 12 months Sales
    31. TTM – Trailing 12 months Operating Profit
    32. TTM – Trailing 12 months Operating Profit margin
    33. TTM – Trailing 12 months Gross profit
    34. TTM – Trailing 12 months Gross profit margin
    35. TTM – Trailing 12 months Net profit
    36. TTM – Trailing 12 months Net profit Variance
    37. TTM – Trailing 12 months EPS
    38. TTM – Trailing 12 months PE
    39. TTM – Trailing 12 months CPS
    40. TTM – Trailing 12 months Depreciation
Fundamental parameters can be added on create scan page after clicking the filter icon

Contact us for your feedback

Near real-time updates

We now offer near real-time NSE updates for Charts & Scans. The data is updated every 5 minutes, the latest update referring current market values. Data is directly fetched from the NSE servers.

Example: If Market opens at 9:15am, on a 5 minute interval the updates can be described as follows:

  • 9:20am – Data from 9:15am – 9:19am
  • 9:25am – Data from 9:20am – 9:24am
  • 9:30am – Data from 9:25am – 9:29am

The minimum data delay would be 0 minutes(eg: at 9:20am) and the maximum would be 5 minutes(eg: at 9:24am)

WaveTrend indicator updates

WaveTrend indicator is now available in our Charts & Screener. It can be added for Intraday, daily, weekly & monthly ranges and accepts 3 parameters as below:

  1. Calculation period: number of candles used to calculate WaveTrend, defaults to 10
  2. Averaging period: number of candles used to average WaveTrend, defaults to 21
  3. Momentum Length: number of candles used to calculate WaveTrend momentum, defaults to  4

Refer the below images on how to add them to your studies.

  1. CHARTS

  2. SCANNER

Supertrend indicator updates

Supertrend indicator is now available in our Charts & Screener. It can be added for daily, weekly & monthly ranges and accepts 2 parameters as below:

  1. Period – Period used for ATR calculation, default: 7
  2. Multiplier – Co-efficient used in calculation, default: 3

Refer the below images on how to add them to your studies.

  1. Charts

  2. Scanner

Screeners for Supertrend

Hoping this additional further helps you to filter & find breakout stocks.

Stock Screener FAQ

List of frequently asked questions from our visitors.

How to scan NSE Future stocks?

A segment filter has been added to the topmost filter for modification. These future stock prices are based on NSE cash stocks and indices only. Refer to the below image:

Changing to future stocks

How to run a scan for stocks in the Watchlist?

Click on the segment filter at the top of the screener page, and select “Watchlist” from the dropdown menu. The scan will then be run for the stocks in your Watchlist. You can create your new watchlist here

How to perform Weekly/Monthly scans?

After an indicator/attribute has been added, click on the “Latest” prefix right before it and change it to any of the “Weekly” range groups, e.g., “Weekly”, “1 week ago,” and so on… The same applies to Monthly filters –

How to run Intraday timeframe scans?

After you have added an indicator, you can click on the “latest” prefix on the left-hand side and change it to the Intraday timeframe you want. E.g.:

Intraday offsets

In a premium subscription, you can access 1/2 and 3-minute timeframes. Whereas in a free version, timeframes are from 5 minutes onwards

How to add indicators on charts?

  1. Navigate to the chart of the stock you want to analyze.
  2. Select the “Indicators” button on the left side of the chart. To add an indicator to a chart, follow these steps:
  3. Scroll through the list of available indicators and select the one you want to add to the chart. Once you open a chart, the left side has an option for indicators; you can select an indicator per your preference.
Adding SMA’s indicator on the chart’s

How to use the crossed above/below functions correctly?

The crossover function is primarily designed for use with indicators such as the MACD line crossing the MACD signal or the EMA20 crossing the EMA50, and in such cases, it works effectively.

However, when applied to attributes like a 5-minute close crossing the high of 1 day ago or even for the fixed candle offset, like the current 5-minute close crossing [=1] 5-minute high (day’s first candle high). The crossover function may not deliver accurate results. This is because it compares two different timeframes—5-minute (intraday) and the daily candle (from 1 day ago) leading to incorrect outcomes.

Crossover on different timeframe(INCORRECT) –

Fixed candle Cross-over(INCORRECT) –

In such scenarios, the appropriate approach would be to use ‘greater than’ and ‘less than’ conditions. Below is the modified version of the scan to reflect this. Below is an example scanner –

https://chartink.com/screener/current-price-crossing-1-day-ago-high

Cross over using Greater than and Less than(CORRECT)

Do you show or add Pre-Market data?

Pre-market data for the current day is available at 9:09 am and includes data up until 09:08:59 am. Our scans for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly candles are updated at 09:09 am, while intraday candles with intervals of 1/2/3 minutes are updated starting from 09:15 am.

Alerts are not sent out before 9.15 am. You will need to manually run the scan and view the results with candles, including pre-market values.

Are charts not loading/showing properly?

Please try to reset your chart settings by visiting here: Click here to reset charts(Default).

Why is volume data not available for indices like Nifty and Banknifty?

Indices like Nifty and Banknifty do not have volume data because they are composite instruments of multiple stocks. Indices are calculated based on the price movements of the underlying stocks rather than their volume. Hence, volume data is irrelevant for indices and not displayed on charts and scans.  

Do you have pre-defined scans that we can run?

On our “SCREENER” page, many pre-built screeners are available for use. These screeners can be found on the list and used to start your analysis. You can choose from fundamental and technical screeners according to your preferred strategy. You also search for other scans as well—E.g., breakout stocks, RSI scanners, NR 7 scans…etc.
Here is an example of searched scans – Search for NR7 scans

How to find Shareholding attributes?

You may refer to the dashboard that we have specially made for shareholding patterns(FII, DII and Public) – Industry Shareholding pattern

How can we increase the number of stocks shown in the Atlas dashboard(from 50)?

We have set a default stock limit of 50. However, if you wish to increase the number of stocks displayed in your dashboard, please follow these steps:

  1. Open your dashboard and select the ‘Group/Sort’ option.
  2. Drag the ‘Data per symbol’ option from 5 to 1.
  3. After you have made this change, the ‘Number of symbols’ option will appear, automatically set to 50.
  4. You can then drag this option up to 1000 to display more stock results.

Can we set our scans or dashboard as private mode/hidden from others?

Yes, This feature is available to our premium subscription users. It allows users to create scans or dashboards that can be made private, rendering them hidden and inaccessible to others.

You can find this feature located below the ‘submit’ button when you save your scan or dashboard.

Mobile or Desktop Application for chartink?

At this time, Chartink is only available as a web-based application and does not have a mobile or desktop app for Android or iOS devices. However, you can access Chartink on your mobile phone and desktop using a web browser.

Not able to copy-paste scans?

It could be because of usage of the “Custom indicator” used in the scan.
Copy and paste custom indicators used in scanners. To access and utilize the custom indicators used in a scan:

  1. Click on the purple arrow mark (>>) next to the custom indicator.
  2. The formula for the custom indicator will be displayed. Now click on a “copy” of this indicator.
  3. Create a new indicator using this formula by visiting https://chartink.com/indicator and saving the customized formula.
  4. Open a new scan and input the name of the custom indicator in the desired condition.
    Here is a sample video tutorial as a reference – Copy paste scan filters.mp4

Does chartink support mathematical functions?

Yes, Below are a few examples of it:

  1. Abs() – Absolute – Returns the absolute value of an expression/number. For example, using ABS on (5 +(-10) = -5) will return the output as positive (5). Reference dashboard here.
  2. CEIL() – This function returns the smallest integer value, which is bigger than or equal to a number. For example, CEIL on (312.70) will return the output as positive (313). Reference dashboard here.
  3. Floor() – Returns the highest integer less than the given number. For example, using Floor on (521.70) will return the output as positive (521). Reference dashboard here.
  4. ROUND() – The ROUND function rounds a number to a specified number of digits. For example, using Floor on (296.20) will return the output as positive (296). Reference dashboard here.

Can we recover deleted scan in chartink?

Yes, To assist with restoring a deleted scan or widget, it would be helpful to have more information, such as the name and date of deletion. This will allow us to access backups from the appropriate time frame. You can share these details here- [email protected].

Who owns chartink?

The Terms and Conditions of Use set forth herein apply to the website titled chartink.com, which is owned, operated, licensed and controlled by B. Networks.

What are the benefits of chartink premium?

As a premium member, you will have access to dedicated scanner support. This includes requesting custom scans and collaborating on their creation and sharing.
You would be able to:

  • Access realtime data for Charts & Scans every minute
  • Create Alerts and receive updates of stock breakouts over SMS/EMAIL/mobile/desktop/webhooks
  • View charts in 1/2/3 minute timeframes with auto-refresh
  • Run screeners in 1/2/3 minute timeframes with auto-refresh
  • Scan any watchlist via the segment dropdown of a scan
  • Private Scans & Dashboard
  • Customized Atlas dashboards for market overview
  • Dedicated support for your scanner or dashboard requirements

You can get details/signup for our premium service here: https://chartink.com/subscription