Setup an automated alert

This tutorial covers how to set up an automated alert to go to your e-mail account.

It's impossible to follow all assets or possible trading strategies in any market, especially pairs. You can setup an automated alert to have our servers do the heavy lifting of regularly scanning the market to find profitable opportunities delivered to you via e-mail.

To setup an automated alert first go to the 'Automated Strategy Alerts' tab and enter a list of stocks you want to follow on the right. Only stocks within the same industry will be eligible for a match, so you may want to break up your alerts by industry. This minimum associativity requirement guarantees that even loose conditions won't generate signals that ultimately waste your time.

Next choose which metrics you want to act as signals. Remember that any of these metrics may act as signals so adding more signal-types naturally tends to create more signals. You may consider breaking up alerts by closely related signal types. You'll receive details on why you were alerted about a particular pair in your triggered alerts (available from both your e-mail and archived historically from the web application).

Make sure to save your automated alerts when you're finished.

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In addition to receiving daily e-mails, all your triggered alerts will be available from the 'My Triggered Alerts' tab. Here you'll find the reasons on why you were alerted on a particular pair. Additionally you can download or update your existing pairs from this page.

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Triggered pairs will never be deleted. You can use this system to practice your pairs trading by discovering what works and what doesn't work over time.