GUIDE · ALERTS & DELIVERY

Alerts

Two delivery paths, one discipline. On TradingView, every IQ indicator exposes every event through a single alert — one per chart, no picking through conditions. On the platform, the Signals page and Live Tape carry the multi-clock events a single chart can't see. Everything fires on confirmed closes only.

TradingView alerts

  1. Open the alert dialog on your chart.
    The clock icon, or Alt+A, with the ticker and timeframe you want to watch loaded.
  2. First Condition dropdown: the IQ script.
    IQ Bands, IQ Oscillator or IQ Structure — whichever chart you're arming.
  3. Second dropdown: “Any alert() function call”.
    It's the first option. Same choice on all three indicators. Everything else in that menu — BUY, SELL, the levels, and the operator list (Crossing Up, Greater Than…) — is raw plot data for building custom conditions; you never need any of it.
  4. Delivery and save.
    Push, email, sound or webhook; set expiry to open-ended. Done — that one alert now carries every event the script prints, each with a named message. Alerts run server-side, so your chart doesn't need to stay open.
One alert per indicator per ticker per timeframe is the whole setup. The message names the event every time — BUY or SELL (with an elevated-volume tag when it applies), T1/T2/T3 by name with the level, EXIT with the side, exhaustion with the direction.

What fires

IndicatorEventsMessage carries
IQ BandsBUY/SELL confirmations, fib target hits, trail-stop exitsTicker, timeframe, direction, level
IQ OscillatorWave-signal crosses, zone entries and exits, flow flipsTicker, timeframe, lane, reading
IQ StructureCHoCH, BOS, order-block touches, liquidity sweepsTicker, timeframe, tier, level

Short Term Alerts

The platform watches what a single chart can't: alignment across clocks. When the 1, 5 and 15 minute regimes lock in the same direction on one of the tracked names, the triple lock prints on the Live Tape the moment it confirms and stays listed on the Signals page's Short Term view while it holds. The swing equivalent — 30 minutes, 2 hours and daily — is the Triple Signals list on the same page.

Alert hygiene

The failure mode of every alert system is volume. Start with one ticker's daily Bands flip and live with it for a week before adding anything. Add the Oscillator only on the names you actually trade, and leave the minute-clock events to the platform — that's what the tape is for. An alert you've learned to ignore is worse than no alert.