Sept 26, 2025
Strategy
Markets keep moving all the time, virtually 24/5. With hundreds of trading instruments available for any trader, and trading sessions covering the entire day and overlapping with others, it is impossible to keep track of everything that’s happening. Traders select their preferred instruments and focus on those, but even that can expose you to a lot of market noise.
Trading alerts are automated notifications triggered by predefined conditions.
An app monitors the markets for you, and when your conditions are met, you get an instant push notification.
Traders use different alert types:
economic calendar alerts (NFP, CPI, central bank decisions)
price alerts (price reaches a specified level)
indicator alerts (RSI > 70, MA is crossed)
Save time on watching charts and reduce your overall screen time. You can configure your alerts and close the charts until you need to act on them. You will get a notification exactly when you should act according to your strategy.
Alerts help you focus only on moves that align with your strategy. Once you define your plan and set up alerts, you will not be distracted by any other price changes and will only need to react to those changes that bring you closer to your goals. You will only trade when a price value confirms your setup.
Filter out market noise and act only when the price reaches your zone of interest. You will not need to monitor huge volumes of information and make multiple decisions constantly: you will only focus on what matters to you and your trading strategy.
Act at just the right moment. You will never miss an NFP spike or a CPI gap again. Once you choose your preferred instruments and configure alerts, you will not need to stay online and monitor charts to know when volatility hits, and an opportunity arises.
Stay disciplined. Alerts will only be triggered when you need them, helping you avoid impulsive trades and reduce risk.
Keep an eye on multiple markets and instruments. You can configure various types of alerts, such as Forex, gold, and indices, and you will get notifications for all of them without having to watch multiple charts.
A price alert is the simplest and most widely used type of trading alert. Forex trading alerts are very popular with Forex traders as they need to track multiple currency pairs with small price fluctuations.
As the name suggests, a price alert notifies you when the price of a trading instrument reaches a certain level. You can select the instrument you are interested in and specify the price level you want to be notified about.
When you configure price alerts, you create triggers — a price crossing, a candle close, or directional movement. When the condition is met, your phone buzzes with a push notification. Once you set up your alerts, you can react to things like gold breaking $3650, EURUSD closing below 1.0800, or NASDAQ moving up by 200 points.
Examples:
Stock price alert: “Notify if S&P500 > $6500.”
Forex alert: “EURUSD < 1.0800.”
Gold price alert: “XAUUSD > $3500.”
Price alerts in the FBS app are one of the advanced features that will help you focus on your strategy and filter out market noise. The configuration process is straightforward. Here is a step-by-step guide for you.
1. In the FBS app, click the alarm clock icon on the Trade or instrument screens.
2. Set the alert conditions and trigger:
Price crosses a specified level.
Candle closes above or below a specified level.
Price moves up or down by a set amount within a selected timeframe.
3. Choose the timeframe.
4. Decide if the alert should repeat or not.
5. Define the expiration date.
Here you are! Once you click Set alert, the alert will be activated, and you will start getting the notifications once all your conditions are met.
Price crosses set level
This is a breakout alet. The alert triggers when the bid price touches or crosses the specified value.
Example: XAUUSD crosses above $3650.
Candle close above level
The alert notifies you when a candle closes above your set price. You can consider this alert to be a bullish confirmation.
Example: EURUSD candle closes above 1.1000.
Candle close below level
Choose this option when you want a bearish confirmation. The alert notifies you when a candle closes below your set price.
Example: GBPUSD daily candle closes below 1.2700.
Price moving up
You will get a notification when the price rises above its current level.
Example: Gold moving up quickly during CPI release.
Price moving down
An alert is delivered when the price drops.
Example: US100 moving down 200 points in a session.
Let’s consider a use case with two price alerts to cover both scenarios and help traders trade the break.
Alert at $3640 (upside breakout)If gold crosses above this level, you have a bullish continuation. The trader can prepare for a long setup, expecting momentum to push toward higher resistance zones.
Alert at $3620 (downside break)If the price drops back through this level, it shows weakness against the trendline. You are warned to look for shorts or protect existing long positions, with targets near $3580 or lower.
If you set alerts on both sides, you let the market decide on your trade direction.
You won’t need to guess. You will wait for the price to confirm a breakout up or down and open your trade accordingly. This will help you stay disciplined and filter out false impulses.
Enable push notifications. No alerts will be delivered if you don’t allow the FBS app to send you push notifications.
Set alerts before a trading session. You may want to set alerts at support or resistance levels, rather than randomly.
Avoid alert overload. Too many alerts may create extra noise instead of helping you avoid it.
Combine alerts with risk management. Your alerts should meet your risk management options, such as trade volumes and stop-loss placement.
Review and adjust alerts regularly. Any strategy may need to be adjusted with market structure shifts and new macroeconomic developments. When you plan for your new trading week, you may want to change your alerts map to comply with any changes you plan for.
Remember that alerts deliver a notification; they don’t execute trades for you. They help you know when to act, but they are not automated orders that can open or close your positions. You will need to make decisions and open trades manually.
Markets make traders monitor and process vast volumes of information. Trading alerts are very helpful as they let you automate some of the information processing.
Price alerts are the most common type of trading alerts that many traders find particularly helpful. They are simple yet very effective. They notify you when the price of a trading instrument meets your specified conditions. This approach helps you reduce the noise level, save time monitoring charts, and trade only when the conditions meet your strategy.