What an alert can watch
Every alert is one of a handful of kinds. Pick the one that matches the thing you actually want to be told about.
Price
- Price — a level crossed, or a move of a certain size.
- Level approach — the price coming near a level rather than through it, so you hear about it before it happens.
- Contract price — the premium of one specific option, rather than the stock.
Dealer exposure
- Greek exposure move (the king node) — the strike carrying the most dealer exposure moving to a different strike. This is the wall shifting, and it is the one most people mean. It fires on any move, in either direction, against the last reading.
It is not the same as exposure crossing zero, which is a far rarer event. If you set this up expecting "the wall moved" you have the right one.
Volume and flow
- Volume spike — unusual volume on a contract.
- Volume shift — where the volume is concentrated changing.
- Options flow — large or unusual trades coming through.
- Flow rank / top flow — a symbol entering or moving within the day's most-active list.
Technicals
- Technicals — indicator conditions on the chart.
Two settings worth knowing
Fire once when the window opens. Most of these watch for a change, which means on a quiet morning they may not fire at all — and a workflow waiting on one never runs. Turning this on fires the alert once at the start of its window each day even with nothing changed, so a bound workflow gets that first look.
A narrower window. Alerts run through the session by default. Narrowing the window is how you say "only in the first hour", and it also stops a busy signal from firing all afternoon.
Set alerts up in the Alerts tab.