Set up an alert in seconds so ForecastCity watches 4CastMachine AI forecasts, price levels and indicators accurately for you. Tell or ask AI Trading Assistant by voice or in writing to build the alert for you. Or follow this one-page tour to open the editor, build a condition, choose the options and save.
The example: get an alert when EURUSD rises above 1.09 on the 5m chart.
Open the editor
Open EURUSD in 4CM-AI Charts and set the chart to the 5m timeframe. Then open the alert editor in one of three ways:
Click the lightning icon (Alerts) in the top toolbar and press +.
Right-click the chart and choose Add alert on EURUSD at …. The condition starts with the price you clicked.
Press
Alt+Aon the chart. The condition starts with the current price.
You can also tell or ask AI Trading Assistant in your own voice or in writing to create the alert for you.
Every kind of alert uses this one window. It opens on the Conditions tab and floats over the chart. You can keep using the chart while it is open.
Build the condition
A condition is one row. Read it from left to right: what to watch, the timeframe, what has to happen and the value. If you opened the editor from the chart, the row is already filled in.
In the first box, choose Price. Always start with this box, because it changes the rest of the row.
Leave the second box on 5m, the chart's timeframe.
In the third box, choose crosses above. In the last box, type 1.09.
Price: what the alert watches. You can also choose a 4CM-AI forecast, a drawing, an indicator or a candlestick pattern here.
crosses above: what has to happen.
The price level to compare with.
Alert me on EURUSD if: the whole alert in plain words. Read it before you save.
The summary on the right now says 5m Price crosses above 1.09. If a box is still empty, it has a faint red outline and Create stays grey.
The first box lists everything an alert can watch: 4CM-AI, Candles, Price, Line, RSI, EMA, SMA, ATR, MACD, Bollinger, Stoch and Volume.
Choose when it fires and where it arrives
Open the Options tab. It holds everything except the conditions.
Trigger starts on Once only, unless you saved your own defaults. With Once only, the alert fires the first time price crosses 1.09, even in the middle of a candle. Then it stops.
Do you only care about candles that close above the level, and want to ignore quick spikes? Choose Once per bar close. A bar is one candle. A Confirmation timeframe box appears. Set it to 5m, like the condition. This alert keeps running after it fires.
Trigger: how often the alert can fire. The line under it describes your choice.
Expiration: an end date for the alert. Open-ended means it has none.
Message: leave it on Auto for the automatic message. It says what happened, the price at that moment and whether the alert stays on.
Show in-app notification: always on. You can tick more places under it.
Schedule keeps the alert to the days and hours you choose. Outside those hours it does not fire at all. Choose how often an alert fires and when it is active explains these choices in detail.
Under Notifications, tick where else the alert should reach you: Play sound, Notify my devices, Send email, Telegram, Send to MetaTrader or a webhook. Email, Telegram and webhooks work when your subscription plan includes them.
Until you save your own defaults, the places you have already connected (a device, Telegram or MetaTrader) are ticked for you on each new alert. To keep your own choices for every new alert, press Save as my defaults at the bottom of the tab. Reset to defaults goes back to the starting options.
Save and check the alert
Go back to the Conditions tab and read the summary once more.
Press Create. The window closes.
Click the lightning icon (Alerts) in the top toolbar. Your alert is in the list with the status Active.
Active means the alert is running and waiting for price to cross 1.09. Move the mouse over the alert row to see its buttons: Pause, Edit, Delete and Explain (the sparkles icon). Click Explain so AI Trading Assistant explains the alert in plain words. Click Edit to open the same window with Save instead of Create.
When the alert fires, the Log tab of the Alerts panel shows when it happened. If an alert is in the Log but no message reached your phone, check the delivery. The condition worked.
Add more conditions
Press + Add condition for another row, or press Enter in a box you type into. The new row appears right below.
Each new row starts with its own and or or. The editor checks and before or, and draws parentheses on the rows to show which conditions are checked together. Before you build a larger alert, read Combine several conditions in one alert.
Move the mouse over a row to see its buttons. The gear opens Details when the row has extra settings. ( ) puts the row in parentheses with the next row. The bin removes the row.
With an active membership, you can also add 4CM-AI forecast conditions. One alert can then wait for a forecast and for your own chart conditions together.
Good to know
An alert reacts only to moves that happen after you save it. If EURUSD is already above 1.09 when you press Create, price has to go back below 1.09 and cross it again.
Every place you ticked receives the same message: what happened, the price at that moment and whether the alert stays on. Words you type under Message come first, with that text under them.
The Setup menu at the bottom left saves your conditions as a setup you can reuse later, without creating an alert. Read more in Organize alerts with setups, groups and watchlists.