How to Set a Price Alert in TradingView

A price alert, in five lines

A price alert is a message sent to you when the price crosses a level you named. Right-clicking a price on the chart and choosing Add alert, the clock icon at the top, or Alt+A all open the same box. The condition is a symbol, a rule such as Crossing, and a number, 1.16700 here on the euro, fired once only or every time. It arrives as a pop-up, a sound, an email, or a notice on the phone app. In the example the alert was set at 10:00 on Tuesday 25 August 2026, when the euro's one-hour bar opened at 1.16526, and fired at 12:05, the first five-minute bar to touch the level, at 1.16717. It says that the price got there, and nothing about what to do.

A smoke detector

Picture a smoke detector on the ceiling. It was fixed there once, it is silent for weeks, and it goes off for one reason only: the thing it watches for arrived. It does not watch the room for you, and it does not say what to do about the smoke. A price alert is that detector. It is set once with one level, it stays silent while the price is elsewhere, and when the price reaches the level it says so, loudly, and nothing more.

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