Getting started with technical alerts
On TradingView, you can set alerts for drawing tools, indicators, strategies, and chart patterns. These notify you about changes in an indicator's readings, when the price breaks a chart pattern, and many other conditions that trigger a technical alert.
CONTENTS:
- What are technical alerts
- Alerts on indicators
- Alerts on custom Pine scripts
- Alerts for Pine strategies
- Alerts on drawing tools
- Alerts on chart patterns
What are technical alerts
An alert is considered technical when it's set for an indicator, drawing, or strategy. When you configure alerts, you can select from many different operators that trigger them.
Technical alerts use all of the available operators:
- Crossing / Crossing up / Crossing down: Trigger when the value reaches a certain level
- Greater than / Less than: Trigger when the value surpasses a certain level
- Entering/Exiting channel: Trigger when the value reaches a channel's boundaries from a certain direction
- Inside/Outside channel: Trigger when the value moves into or out a channel's boundaries
- Moving up / down / up % / down %: Trigger when the asset's price rises or falls by a certain amount within a specified number of bars
! Note: Alerts using Channel and Moving operators are always technical. Other operators can work with price alerts unless they are used with indicators, drawing tools, or strategies.

Alerts on indicators
You can set alerts for over a thousand TradingView indicators, including community-created ones. These alerts notify you about indicators reaching or surpassing the threshold you set for your trades.
To get the most out of these alerts, we suggest you examine your Supercharts thoroughly in the past and spot where the indicator has reached those levels you want to be notified about. Also, you can try backtesting to confirm the viability of your trading strategy.
There’s a couple of ways to create an indicator alert, depending on what's comfortable for you:
- Right-click on the indicator and click "Add alert…"
- Open Alert manager, click on the "Create alert" button, select the desired indicator in the "Condition" dropdown
Then you'll need to select a built-in preset or customize your own condition to set it up.
! Note: If indicator parameters are changed after an alert is created, the alert will still trigger using the old settings.
Alerts on custom Pine scripts
For advanced customization, you can configure script alerts using Pine Script® — TradingView’s programming language for traders. Or you can define your own trigger settings using alertcondition and alert functions.
For the alert() function, unlike other types of alerts, the triggering frequency and the message sent with script alerts are controlled by the "alert()" function calls in the script, not through the "Create Alert" dialog.
If you want to dive deeper into using the "alert()" function in scripts, use the Pine Reference Manual and the Pine User Manual.
Alerts for Pine strategies
To create an alert for a strategy, you need to select one in the "Indicators, metrics, and strategies" window. There, open the "Technicals" tab, and select "Strategies."

When a strategy is added to your chart, in the "Condition" field, select one of the options:
- Order fills and alert() function calls: The created alerts will trigger on order fills and "alert()" events
- Order fills only: The alert only triggers on order fills, like an ordinary strategy alert
- alert() function calls only: The alert only triggers on "alert()" events, like a script alert on an indicator
Alerts on drawing tools
Currently, we support alerts for lines, channels, and Anchored VWAP. The first two you can find in the trend line tools on the left toolbar.
For lines:
- Crossing
- Crossing up / Crossing down
- Greater than / Less than
For channels:
- Entering channel / Exiting channel
- Inside channel / Outside channel
You can find Anchored VWAP in the "Forecasting and measurement tools" on the left toolbar.

Alerts on chart patterns
You can set alerts for automatically detected chart patterns. These alerts identify pattern breakouts, recognize new formations, and notify you about a pattern reaching its target.

To set up a chart pattern alert, ensure that it's added to the chart:
- Click on the "Indicators, metrics, and strategies" on the upper toolbar
- Go to the "Technicals" tab
- select "Patterns"
! Note: You need to select a chart pattern manually to set an alert for it. Alerts don't work for "All chart patterns."

The bottom line
TradingView's technical alerts give you the power to monitor changes in indicators, Pine scripts and strategies, drawing tools, and chart patterns. You can set them to trigger based on specific conditions, such as crossing a threshold, entering or exiting a channel, or meeting indicator-based criteria.
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