--- title: "Step-by-step guides: learn alerts by example" slug: "alerts-step-by-step" kind: "HELP_ARTICLE" category: "alerts" locale: "en" canonical: "https://help.forecastcity.com/alerts/alerts-step-by-step" published: "2026-09-08T17:58:35.210Z" updated: "2026-10-27T16:59:11.305Z" description: "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." --- # Step-by-step guides: learn alerts by example ForecastCity alerts watch 4CastMachine AI forecasts, price levels and indicators accurately so you do not have to sit at the chart. Tell or ask AI Trading Assistant by voice or in writing to create an alert in seconds. Or follow these step-by-step guides to build and check each kind of alert yourself. ## Your first complete alert Follow these four guides in order. Together they cover the whole workflow. 1. [Create your first price alert](). Open the editor, build one price condition and save it. 2. [Choose how often an alert fires and when it is active](). Set the trigger, the end date and the hours when the alert is active. 3. [Choose where your alert arrives](). Connect the place where you want to receive alerts, such as your phone. 4. [Find out why an alert did not arrive](). See when an alert fired, and find out why a message is missing. The first four guides are enough to use alerts well. The other guides add more kinds of conditions. ## Find the guide for your goal

I want to…	Open this guide
Know when price reaches a level	Create your first price alert
Know when price moves by a set amount, or enters a price range	Alerts for price moves and price ranges
Know when price touches, breaks, bounces off or approaches a line I drew	Create alerts on chart lines
Know when price enters a rectangle or reaches a Fibonacci level I drew	Create alerts on rectangles and Fibonacci levels
Use RSI, a moving average or ATR	Create RSI, moving average and ATR alerts
Use MACD, Bollinger Bands or Stochastic	Create MACD, Bollinger Bands and Stochastic alerts
Know when volume is well above its average	Get an alert when volume is unusually high
Know when a candlestick pattern completes	Create candlestick pattern alerts
Wait for several things at once, or for any one of several	Combine several conditions in one alert
Understand why an alert fired when it did, or did not fire again	When does an alert fire? Timeframes and repeats
Write my own message, or send alerts to my own server	Write your own alert message and use webhooks
Reuse a set of conditions, or organize many alerts	Organize alerts with setups, groups and watchlists
Change the alert lines on the chart, the details in the list or the sound	Adjust alert lines, list details and sound

## Add 4CM-AI forecast conditions 4CM-AI conditions work on symbols that have a 4CastMachine AI forecast, in the markets your subscription plan includes. If a feature such as **4CM-AI** or a multi-condition alert is outside your subscription plan, selecting or saving it opens an upgrade card. **4CM-AI** is greyed out in the first box only when the symbol itself has no 4CastMachine AI forecast. Rest the mouse on that box to see why. Read the three forecast guides in this order: 1. [Get an alert when a forecast changes]() 2. [Get an alert when price reaches a forecast zone]() 3. [Combine forecasts from several timeframes in one alert](). It also shows how to add your own chart conditions to forecast conditions. ## Related guides - [Alerts: start here]() - [Quick tour: create and check an alert]()