Alerts: the market watches itself

A sonar earns its keep when you don’t have to stare at it. The dashboard ships with four alert conditions that turn the zone readout into notifications.

The four conditions

1. Resistance zone entry — price reached the nearest R zone.
2. Support zone entry — price reached the nearest S zone.
3. Breakout up — price closed above a resistance zone.
4. Breakout down — price closed below a support zone.

The first pair says “start watching” — price is testing a level and the reaction is worth judging. The second pair says “the context changed” — the level stopped working.

Setting them up in TradingView

1. Add the dashboard to a chart on your decision timeframe (the preset from lesson 3).
2. Click the alarm-clock icon (Alert) or press Alt+A.
3. Under Condition pick the dashboard’s name, then one of the four conditions.
4. Trigger: “Once per bar close”. The most important field — see below.
5. Notifications: mobile app + email. Leave webhooks for later (useful for notification automation, module 5).
6. Repeat for the other conditions you want to watch.

One alert handles one condition — a full set for one instrument is at most 4 alerts. Active-alert limits depend on your TradingView plan; on the free plan pick the 1–2 most important conditions for 1–2 instruments.

Why “once per bar close”

An alert checked on every tick can fire when price merely wicked into a zone — and left a moment later. A candle close is the minimal confirmation: the market didn’t just touch the level, it held there to the end of the interval. The cost is a one-candle delay — acceptable on 4H and 1D, while false wake-ups drop severalfold.

Symmetric note: the “breakout” alerts also wait for the close — in this methodology a wick through a level is not yet a breakout.

The routine we’re heading toward

The target workflow (expanded in module 5): a weekly zone review on the chart, alerts set on zone entries, and otherwise — you don’t watch the chart. Your phone speaks up when price reaches somewhere that matters. That’s the difference between analysis and screen-sitting.

Lesson 4 checklist: 2–4 alerts set on your preset instrument → all on “once per bar close” → mobile notifications confirmed working (test with a simple price alert if unsure).

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Educational material. Not investment advice.