The Alerts Center 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 from this page.
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.
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 Alerts
When subscribed, Barchart Premier members can receive text alerts to your mobile device. For users outside the U.S. mainland, support for text alerts will depend on your local carrier.
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 will be sent along in your email notification.
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.
End-of-Day: the condition will be checked once at 4:30P Central Time. Even after triggering, End-of-Day alerts stay in an active state. The condition of the alert will continue to be monitored until you either deactivate or delete the alert.
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.
