Alerts that actually matter

An alert system you've muted is worth nothing. The goal isn't more notifications, it's the right ones, so that when your phone buzzes you actually look. Tuning takes ten minutes and saves you from the slow drift into ignoring every ping. Here's how to set it up.

1. Group your names by how closely you follow them

On the Watchlist page's Groups tab, split your tickers into a few baskets. For example:

• Core holdings — positions you hold now. You want to know almost everything.
• Catalyst names — names with an event coming up, like earnings or a PDUFA date.
• Watching — ideas you're tracking but don't own. Only the big stuff.

Each group can hold up to 30 tickers, and you can have 10 groups. Rules target groups, so this one step is what lets you treat a holding differently from a name you're just watching.

2. Give each group its own rule

On the Alerts tab, build one rule per group, or start from a template and change its scope. A sensible pattern:

• Core holdings: SEC Filings, Insider Trades, Earnings Beats / Misses, Court Judgements and FDA & Biotech, with a Minimum impact score of around 5.
• Catalyst names: Earnings Beats / Misses or FDA & Biotech only, with no score floor, so you see every result.
• Watching: SEC Filings and Institutional with a minimum score of 7 or 8, so only material events get through.

Fewer categories means more signal per message. You have 20 rules to work with, so it's fine to split one idea into two.

3. Use specific events and sentiment to cut noise

Inside a category, Specific events lets you keep only what you trade on, such as open-market insider buys but not sells, or analyst downgrades but not initiations. Sentiment lets you, for example, only hear about bearish filings on names you're long.

Remember that score and sentiment filters only work on categories that carry them. Analyst ratings, congressional trades, halts and narratives have no impact score, so give them their own rule without a score floor. The Alert rules table shows which categories support which filter.

4. Add price moves only where they help

Price Moves is opt-in. Add it to a rule with a Minimum daily move, of at least 5%, to hear when a name swings hard. The alert re-fires at each further step: 10%, 15% and so on with a 5% setting. A 10% floor on your core holdings is a good backstop for moves you'd want to know about even without news.

5. Add quiet hours

Under Delivery & Quiet Hours, set a window so Telegram stays silent overnight. Alerts inside the window are skipped, not saved for later. If you don't want to miss them entirely, turn on the Email Digest as well, which arrives at 6 AM in your timezone.

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If a rule gets auto-paused for firing too often, that's a sign it's too broad. Narrow its events or raise its score floor before you hit Resume.

Revisit this setup every few weeks. As your positions change, move names between groups. Your rules follow automatically.

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