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Stock Alerts
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The Stock Alerts send a text message to your email account or email enabled cellular telephone. Alerts can be based on the Last Trade, Dollar Change, Percentage Change, Volume Traded, Open Price, Bid, Ask, Sentiment Stockscore or Signal Stockscore of a stock.
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The main Stock Alerts page allows you to see the alerts you have established, add a stock alert or change the delivery options for the stock alerts. You an also edit or delete an existing stock alert, and turn an alert on or off.
Stock alerts are not sent in real time, A few times each day, Stockscores sends out alerts based on what has happened up until that point in the day. Alerts are not in real time, and therefore, should not be used to make time sensitive trading information.
Instead, they are useful for busy people to be aware of a stock's performance before the market close. By establishing alerts on stocks that are near a technical event, you can be sure to catch events as they happen, rather than the following day.
Figure 1 - from the main Stock Alerts page, you can see your existing alerts, and make changes, delete or add new alerts.
Adding a Stock Alert
Stock Alerts can be based on a number of conditions:
Last Trade - was the last trade above or below a price you specify.
Dollar Change - is the change on the current trading day above or below a threshold.
Percentage Change - has the stock gone up or down a certain percentage or more.
Volume/Day - has the stock traded above a share volume threshold.
Open Price - did the stock open above or below a price threshold.
Bid - is the bid above or below a threshold.
Ask - is the ask above or below a threshold.
Sentiment Stockscore - is the Sentiment Stockscore above or below a threshold.
Signal Stockscore - is the Signal Stockscore above or below a threshold.
To set a Stock Alert, enter the symbol of the stock, and then use the Alert Type, Directions and Target Number for the alert you want to establish. For example, if you want to know when MSFT's Signal Stockscore moves above 95, enter MSFT for Symbol, Signal Stockscore for Alert Type, more than for Diections and 95 for Target Number.
Figure 2 - the Add an Alert interface allows a variety of Alerts to be set for stocks you are monitoring.
Establishing or Changing your Delivery Options
The Stock Alerts can be sent to an email account, or to an email enabled cellular telephone. From the main Stock Alerts page, select Delivery Options to determine how your Stock Alerts will be sent.
Choose whether you want the alerts sent to an email account or cellular telephone, and then enter the email address or cell phone number for text messages provided by your cellular provider.
Figure 3 - the Delivery Options page allows you to determine how and where your Stock Alerts will be sent.
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- During the research process, we often find stock charts that are almost worth considering, but need a breakout or other technical event to make them fit a strategy. Use the Stock Alerts tool to identify these technical events on stocks you are following. For example, if you are doing a Market Scan and you find a stock that should go in to an up trend if it can first break through resistance, set a Stock Alert for a price move just above resistance.
- If you own a stock, and want to sell it when the stock penetrates support, set an alert for a movement below the support price so you can exit the stock position more effectively.
- The Signal Stockscore will spike above 95 if there is very optimistic, abnormal behavior. Setting Stock Alerts for this criteria on stocks that you are following will alert for potentially good technical set ups.
- The Sentiment Crossover strategy can identify good longer term trading opportunities. Therefore, setting alerts for Sentiment Stockscore moves above 59 on stocks you are following may highlight stocks that are moving in to optimistic phases of their trading history.
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