Alerts

Choose a quick tour or learn alerts step by step, with practical examples and annotated screenshots.

• Alerts: start here

  Build 4CastMachine AI forecast, price and indicator alerts in ForecastCity, or ask AI Trading Assistant to create one in seconds.

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• Quick tour: create and check an alert

  A one-page tour of alerts in 4CM-AI Charts: open the editor, build a condition, choose trigger and notifications, then save and check.

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• Step-by-step guides: learn alerts by example

  Learn alerts in 4CM-AI Charts step by step: four guides for your first complete alert, then a table that finds the guide for your goal.

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• Create your first price alert

  Create a price alert in 4CM-AI Charts: build one condition, choose Once only or Once per bar close, pick where it reaches you and check it.

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• Get an alert when a forecast changes

  Get an alert when a 4CastMachine AI forecast changes, see what changed in the Log, and use a direction as a filter.

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• Get an alert when price reaches a forecast zone

  Get an alert when price approaches, enters or closes inside a 4CastMachine AI Buy or Sell zone, and read what happened in the Log.

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• Combine forecasts from several timeframes in one alert

  Combine a higher-timeframe forecast direction, a lower-timeframe Buy or Sell zone and a technical condition in one alert, in any order.

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• Alerts for price moves and price ranges

  Create alerts in 4CM-AI Charts for a percentage or price move over several candles, or for price entering or leaving a fixed price range.

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• Create alerts on chart lines

  Create alerts on chart lines in 4CM-AI Charts: touches, breaks, bounces off or approaches, with a buffer, a confirmation and a line that stays linked.

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• Create alerts on rectangles and Fibonacci levels

  Create alerts on a rectangle or a Fibonacci level in 4CM-AI Charts: enters, exits or is inside a box, or touches one chosen level.

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• Create RSI, moving average and ATR alerts

  Create indicator alerts in 4CM-AI Charts: RSI below 30, an EMA crossing an SMA, and an ATR filter. Set the timeframe and how often it fires.

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• Create MACD, Bollinger Bands and Stochastic alerts

  Create MACD, Bollinger Bands and Stochastic alerts in 4CM-AI Charts: open Details, pick the line to watch and choose how often it fires.

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• Get an alert when volume is unusually high

  Create a volume alert in 4CM-AI Charts: volume above a multiple of its average, on symbols with real volume, alone or as a filter.

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• Create candlestick pattern alerts

  Create candlestick pattern alerts in 4CM-AI Charts: pick patterns such as Engulfing, set the timeframe and trend filter, or start from a marker.

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• Combine several conditions in one alert

  Combine price, RSI and candlestick pattern conditions in one alert, see why and is checked before or, and group conditions with your own parentheses.

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• When does an alert fire? Timeframes and repeats

  Learn when a ForecastCity alert fires: condition timeframes, the Confirmation timeframe, the four Trigger choices and why alerts do not repeat.

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• Choose how often an alert fires and when it is active

  Choose Once only, Once per bar or Once per bar close, set an end date and active hours for an alert, and save them as defaults for new alerts.

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• Choose where your alert arrives

  Send ForecastCity alerts to the app, a sound, your phone or computer, MetaTrader, email or Telegram, then connect and test each place.

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• Write your own alert message and use webhooks

  See what a ForecastCity alert message says, add your own words and variables, and send alerts to a webhook as Raw JSON, Discord or Slack.

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• Organize alerts with setups, groups and watchlists

  Find and edit ForecastCity alerts, reuse conditions as a setup, mute a group of alerts and create alerts for every symbol in a watchlist.

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• Adjust alert lines, list details and sound

  Alert settings in 4CM-AI Charts: alert line colours, dragging a price alert's line, the alert volume, pop-ups and the details in the alerts list.

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• Find out why an alert did not arrive

  Use the alerts Log to tell a missing alert from a delivery problem, then check the status, the conditions, the schedule and each notification place.

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