How to Set Price Alerts on TradingView

How do I create an alert on TradingView?

To set a price alert on TradingView, right-click on the chart at the price level you want, choose Add Alert, set the condition (Crossing, Greater Than, Less Than), pick delivery channels (popup, sound, email, SMS, mobile push, or webhook), and click Create. The alert is evaluated server-side and fires even when your desktop app is closed.

TradingView's alert engine evaluates every active alert on every tick, server-side. That means your alert fires the moment its condition is met — whether you are at your desk, asleep, or on the train. Notification arrives via the channels you enabled. Mobile push (free on every plan) lands within 1-2 seconds; email is typically delivered inside 5 seconds; SMS (Premium+) arrives within 10 seconds.

Step-by-step: set a price alert in 45 seconds

1. Right-click at the alert price. Click exactly on the chart price level you want. The context menu's price field is pre-filled from your cursor.
2. Choose Add Alert. Or press Alt+A. The Create Alert dialog opens.
3. Set the condition. Crossing (default), Crossing Up, Crossing Down, Greater Than, Less Than, or Entering Channel for a price range.
4. Pick delivery channels. Toggle Pop-up, Sound, Email, SMS (Premium+), Webhook (Premium+), Mobile Push (free).
5. Set frequency and expiry. Only Once, Once Per Bar, Once Per Bar Close, or Once Per Minute. Default expiry is 1 month. Click Create.

TradingView alert notification channels

Mobile push is the most reliable free option. Make sure the TradingView mobile app has push permissions enabled in the OS settings, and that you are signed in to the same account on phone and desktop.

Alert limits per TradingView plan

The limit is on active alerts. When an alert fires with Only Once expiry, it moves to history and the slot frees up immediately. Premium's 400-alert ceiling covers serious multi-symbol workflows; you only need Ultimate for the second-tick precision, not the alert count.

If you hit the active-alert cap, the most common remedy is to consolidate. A single alert on a custom Pine Script condition can replace several separate price alerts — for example, "price crosses any of the three nearest support levels" is one alert instead of three. Bulk-pausing is also available in the Alerts panel: select multiple alerts and use the toggle at the top to disable them for the week without losing the conditions.

How to set an alert on an indicator (not just price)

Hover any indicator's plot until you see a small bell icon, then click it — the alert dialog opens with the indicator already selected as the condition source. The available conditions adapt to the indicator: RSI gives you Crossing 70, Crossing 30, Entering Overbought, Exiting Oversold; MACD gives you Crossing Signal Line, Crossing Zero; Bollinger Bands gives you Crossing Upper/Lower Band; moving averages give you Price Crossing MA. You can also right-click the indicator and choose Add Alert for the same dialog.

Indicator alerts are the highest-leverage TradingView feature for swing traders. Set RSI Crossing 30 on the daily for every symbol on your watchlist, enable mobile push, and you receive a buy-zone notification the moment one fires — no need to scan charts manually.

Why didn't my TradingView alert trigger?

Three causes account for almost every missed alert. Expiration: the default expiry is 1 month from creation; check the Alerts panel and look for greyed-out alerts. Right-click → Edit → set a new expiry. One-time fired: if you used Only Once and the condition triggered, the alert moved to history. Check the Alert History tab. Session filter: if Trigger Only During Session is enabled, the alert ignores condition matches outside your session hours — this is the most common silent miss for forex traders watching news spikes.

Less common: the alert was paused (bell icon greyed), or you exceeded the plan's active-alert cap when creating it (TradingView refuses the create — check for the red error toast).

Bottom line

TradingView's alert engine evaluates server-side, so alerts fire whether your desktop app is open or your PC is asleep. The fastest way to create one is to right-click the chart at the target price, choose Add Alert, set the condition (Crossing is the default), pick delivery channels (mobile push and email are free on every plan, SMS and webhook need Premium), then click Create. Free accounts get one active alert; Essential gets twenty, Plus a hundred, Premium and Ultimate four hundred. Indicator alerts — RSI Crossing 30, MACD Crossing Zero, price Crossing a moving average — are set the same way: hover the indicator's plot until a small bell icon appears, click it, and the alert dialog opens with the indicator pre-wired as the source. Missed alerts almost always trace to one of three causes: the alert expired, it already fired with Only Once expiry, or Trigger Only During Session is silently filtering it.

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