The Alerts Center, located in the Tools menu, is where you will find all your active, inactive, and triggered Alerts. Use the Alerts Center to view the status of your alerts, including the date and time they were triggered. You may also add new alerts, or change, deactivate, or delete alerts, and configure your account to receive SMS or WhatsApp alert notifications.
A free or Barchart Plus membership allows you to add one price alert for any symbol (based on the symbol's last price). You may also set a news alert for equity symbols to stay on top of news articles that relate to the symbol. All alerts (both price and news alerts) are sent to the primary email address associated with your Barchart account. You can change this email address in the "My Profile" page.
Barchart Premier members can create unlimited alerts, including those based on technicals, volume, price change, and Barchart Opinion. These advanced alerts allow for compound settings, such as "price change greater than 5% and Trend Seeker® equals Buy." Premier Members may also optionally receive price alerts via SMS text message or via WhatsApp on your mobile device.
Note: Alerts on equity options are not currently supported.
Alert Delivery
By default, your account is set to always deliver triggered alerts to the primary email address associated with your Barchart account. This email address is configured in the "My Profile" page.
My Barchart members can set alert delivery to be via email. Notification for triggered alerts will also be recorded on the Alerts Center page. Look for the date and time in the Triggered column.
Barchart Plus and Barchart Premier members can opt to receive on-screen notification, an alert notification that appears at the top right of the web site once an alert is triggered. These notifications stay in place until you dismiss the notification (either by clicking the link to review the alert, or by closing the notification using the X). However, alert notifications older than 7 days are automatically dismissed.
About SMS Text and WhatsApp Alerts
When subscribed, Barchart sends alerts to your mobile device from +1 (312) 741-3754. You may cancel your SMS subscription for all alerts by responding STOP to any alert received on your mobile device from Barchart. This does not deactivate or remove alerts from your Barchart account. You will continue to receive emails for any subsequent alerts that trigger.
If you wish to opt back into receiving SMS or WhatsApp messages, you must do so from your mobile device. Send START to the number from which you are receiving Barchart alerts to reactivate your subscription.
Price Alerts
Get an email alert when a symbol's Last Price is greater than or less than a target value you set. Optionally add Notes to the alert, which are displayed on the Alerts Center (when you hover over the Notes icon) and will be sent along in your email notification. Alerts set on U.S. equities where Cboe BZX real-time prices are available will trigger based on the real-time price.
Under "Prices & Volume", we now include two selections for Last Price:
"Last" will only trigger for US Equities based on regular trading hours (9:30am - 4pm ET).
There is also a new choice called "Latest Available" which will also consider pre- and post-market trades. For non-US equities, there is no difference between either of these selections "Last" and "Latest Available."
Check Frequency
Identify a Frequency for triggering the alert. Alerts can either trigger "intraday" (during market hours) or "End-of-Day" (checked once only each day after the markets close at 4:30 CT.)
- Intraday (no reset): The alert is monitored throughout the trading day. Once triggered, the alert is frozen and will not be checked again until manually reactivated.
- Intraday (daily auto reset): The alert is monitored throughout the trading day. Once triggered, the alert is frozen for the remainder of the trading day, but remains in an "active" state for the next trading day.
- End of Day (4:30P CT no reset): The alert is checked only once each day after the markets close. If triggered, the alert is frozen and will not be checked again until manually reactivated.
- End of Day (4:30P CT daily auto reset): The alert is checked only once each day after the markets close. If triggered, the alert will remain in an "active" state for the next trading day.
Note: When setting an alert on any of the Technicals fields, the alert checks daily data. In other words, setting an Intraday alert on a 20-Day Moving Average will only check the status of the moving average from the previous day's close.
News Alerts
When setting a News Alert for an equity symbol, you can identify the News Sources to monitor. Any time the symbol is mentioned in a story, an alert notification email will be sent with a link to the story.
Important: News Alerts are "continuous" alerts, meaning you will continue to receive them as long as the alert is "Active". To stop receiving News Alerts for a symbol, either delete it or uncheck the "Active" setting.
Add an Alert
You may add an alert for a symbol by entering the symbol in the text box at the top of the page. If an alert exists for the entered symbol, the Alerts modal appears and you may activate the alert, edit and change the target value, or delete the alert if desired. Additionally, you may add or edit alerts from any symbol's quote page.
If there are no alerts set for the symbol, you can proceed to enter either a Price or a News Alert.
Delete Alerts
If you are looking to selectively delete alerts, you can click the checkbox to the left of the alert, then click the Delete button at the top of the page. You may also select all alerts for a symbol for deletion by checking the checkbox at the top of the column. You will be asked to confirm your decision to delete.
Filter by Symbol
The Alerts page lists all alerts, alphabetically by symbol. Use the "Show These Symbols" at the top of the page to look for a specific symbol's alerts.
Flipcharts
Also unique to Barchart, Flipcharts allow you to scroll through all the symbols on the page in a chart view.
Flipcharts are a free tool available to Site Members. From the Alerts Center, you can view Flipcharts for:
- All Symbols on the Alerts page
- Active Alert Symbols
- Active News Alert Symbols
- Inactive Alert Symbols
- Triggered Alert Symbols
- Today's Triggered Alert Symbols
Additional Notes About When Alerts Trigger
- When setting alerts for US Equities, the default selection is "Last Price." This only includes regular market trades between 8:30am - 3pm CT, and excludes odd lots and out-of-order trades. You may also set an alert based on "Lastest Available" which includes all types of trades including odd lots, but also pre- and post-market trades.
- Alerts based on Technicals (support & resistance, technical analysis alerts such as moving averages and MACD, Barchart Opinion, and Barchart Opinion Indicators) will still be triggered outside of market hours, but will not trigger between Saturday at 00:00 CT and ending on Sunday at 17:30 CT.
- Alerts for futures options support basic quote-related alerts (last, change, volume) and can be added via the futures options tables (via the Links column.) These alerts are based on delayed data. The alert properties require a trade to occur before the alert will trigger.
- Alerts for equity options are not supported at this time.
