Price alerts and watchlists: follow the market without watching it all day

The US regular session starts in the evening Tashkent time and ends at night. With work, family and sleep you can't watch it all day — and you don't need to. Two simple tools are enough: a watchlist (what you're following) and a price alert (when to look). Below is how they work on limitup, limits included.

Watchlist: your tracking list

A watchlist is a list of stocks you care about. In the Watchlist section of your dashboard:

• you can create several lists, rename and delete them (for example "Long term" and "Watching");
• stocks are added by ticker (e.g. AAPL). The star in the screener or movers list adds a stock to your first list;
• each row shows price, daily and 1-hour change, volume and a halal status badge. If you add a stock that isn't halal, you get a warning right away;
• quotes refresh every 6 seconds and stay frozen while the market is closed;
• "Gainers" / "Losers" filters sort the list quickly;
• from a row you can jump straight to buying it on the demo account or setting a price alert.

Halal status can change over time — so the badge in the list always shows the current status. Why it changes: Why does a stock's halal status change?. To find candidates: How to use the screener and the halal stocks list.

Your watchlist also filters signals

Turn on "Only my watchlist stocks" in signal settings and signals will come only for stocks in your lists. You can also pick strategies per stock — the rest follow the general setting. If Telegram is connected, the morning digest sent every trading day (08:30 ET) also includes the pre-market moves of your watchlist stocks (those that moved at least ±2%). The digest can be turned off in settings.

Price alert: "tell me when it gets there"

An alert is one stock, one target price and a direction:

• above — fires when price rises to or above the target (e.g. a resistance level breaks);
• below — fires when price falls to or below the target (e.g. the level where you want to enter, or the stop in your plan).

Other alert types (percent change, volume, indicators) don't exist yet — price levels only.

How to set one

1. In the Alerts section: enter ticker, price and direction, then "Add". The bell button on a watchlist row opens this form with the ticker pre-filled.
2. Right on the chart: click the bell in the toolbar, then click the chart at the price you want. The direction is set automatically — "above" if the clicked price is above the current price, "below" if it's below. The alert sits on the chart as a horizontal line: drag it to a new price or delete it.

An alert is one-shot: once it fires it switches to "Triggered" and won't fire again. Need it again — set a new one.

Where the alert reaches you

When an alert fires, you're notified in several ways:

• Site — instantly if it's open; the sidebar shows an unread-alerts count, cleared with "Mark all as read".
• Browser notification (push) — if you allowed notifications in your browser, even when the site is closed.
• Telegram — if you connected Telegram, the bot sends you a direct message: the stock, target price, the price at the moment it fired and a link to the stock page. Telegram is connected in one tap from signal settings; if you switch off the Telegram channel, alert DMs stop too.

A Telegram message on your phone while you sleep is the most practical option.

Limits — know them upfront

• Polling, not real time. Prices are checked periodically (about once a minute with default settings). So the message may arrive a little after the price touched the level, and in a fast move the price in the message may differ noticeably from the target.
• Works in extended hours too. Alerts are checked from pre-market (04:00 ET) to the end of after-hours (20:00 ET) — in Tashkent that's 13:00 to 05:00 during US summer time and 14:00 to 06:00 in winter (from 2 November). When the market is fully closed (nights, weekends, holidays) there are no checks.
• Pre-market prices can mislead. Trading outside the session is thin; a single sharp print can fire an alert. More: Why most pre-market stops are false.
• An alert is not an order. It doesn't buy or sell anything at your broker. If you need a real stop-loss, place it as an order with your broker.

A practical routine

1. Put 10–20 stocks that passed halal screening on your watchlist.
2. Set two levels for each: a price where you'd consider entering (below) and a price that confirms the idea (above).
3. Connect Telegram — no need to sit in front of a screen in the evening and at night.
4. When an alert arrives, check the chart and the news first, then decide. Testing your approach on a demo account first helps.

To learn how to read signals: What a signal is and isn't. News and results — on our Telegram channel. To use watchlists and alerts, sign up.

This article is for information only, not investment advice.