Signal Alerts

Updated October 2026

An alert notifies you when an eligible live strategy order fills — an entry, take-profit or stop-loss event — through the notification methods you select in TradingView. Alerts are also how automatic trading works (the alert quietly tells your connector to place the trade).

First: choose your alert mode

Open the indicator's settings and find the Alert Settings 🔔 section. The setting Alert Message for offers two choices:

Manual Trading

The alert message contains the signal, the ticker, and the exact trade size, so you can read it and place the trade yourself. Choose this if you trade by hand.

Automatic Trading

The alert sends the text you put in the 🔸 Custom Alert Messages fields, so a connector can act on it automatically. Choose this only if you are setting up Automatic Trading, and fill in those fields first — see Custom Alert Messages.

Create the alert

1. 1
   Open TradingView and click the Alerts icon (clock) in the right-hand sidebar.
2. 2
   Click the ＋ button to create a new alert.
3. 3
   Under Condition, select the exact strategy on your chart. For the core strategies, select Order fills only if TradingView presents a trigger choice.
4. 4
   Message tab — Give the alert any name, then paste exactly this into the Message field so TradingView fills in the real signal details automatically:

{{strategy.order.alert_message}}

1. 1
   Open the Notifications tab and choose the available notification methods you want, such as app push or email. A broker connection is not needed for manual notifications.
2. 2
   Click Create. Alerts begin with eligible live order events after creation; historical chart labels do not trigger new notifications. Buy-Sell reversals can use one combined close-and-open order.

Where to see triggered alerts

All alert activity and logs appear in the Alerts window (the same clock icon) in TradingView, under the Log tab.