Trend Alerts: Day Trade and Long Term Explained

Trend alerts are the part of the platform you do not have to actively check. They fire when a pair's trend across a defined timeframe stack flips, so you know to look without staring at charts all day. There are two kinds, calibrated to different trading styles.

Day Trade alerts

These are designed for traders who hold positions for hours, not days. They fire when the short-term timeframe stack (15 minute, 1 hour, 4 hour) aligns into a clean bullish or bearish read.

A Day Trade alert means:

• The 15-minute trend has flipped in line with the higher short timeframes
• The 1-hour and 4-hour trends agree
• This alignment is fresh, not days old

The trade idea is to enter in the alert direction, target the next short-term level, and either close by end of session or trail a tight stop. Stops are typically based on the 1-hour ATR since that is the timeframe most likely to take you out if the alert was premature.

Long Term alerts

Long Term alerts use the higher timeframe stack (1 day, 1 week, 1 month). They fire much less often, but when they do, they are flagging a multi-day to multi-week move. These are swing and position trade alerts.

A Long Term alert means:

• The daily trend has flipped in line with the weekly
• The monthly trend agrees, or has just neutralised
• The alignment is fresh

These are the alerts to actually pay attention to even when you are busy with other things. They do not come around often, and when they do, the move usually runs.

What "bullish" or "bearish" means

The classification is direction-only. Bullish means higher highs and higher lows on the relevant timeframes; bearish is the opposite. It does not mean "you should buy now." It means "the trend is up, and the algorithm thinks the alignment is fresh enough to be worth surfacing."

You still need to:

• Decide whether the entry is at a good price (or if the move has already run too far)
• Pick a stop based on volatility
• Size the position based on the stop distance and your risk per trade

The alert hands you the directional bias and the timing window. The rest of the trade plan is yours.

How not to overtrade them

The classic mistake with any alert system is treating every notification as a trade. Day Trade alerts in particular can fire often during volatile sessions. Three filters cut the noise dramatically:

Filter by the higher timeframe

Only take Day Trade alerts that agree with the daily trend. If the Day Trade alert says bearish but the daily column on the trends grid is bullish, you are trading a pullback against the trend. Those can work, but they need experience to manage. Skipping them entirely is a fine choice.

Filter by session

Trend alerts during the Asian session on USD-led pairs are usually noise. The big moves happen in London and New York. Filtering alerts to the sessions where the relevant currencies actually trade in size eliminates a lot of false starts.

Filter by the squeeze score

A Day Trade alert on an instrument with a squeeze score above 60 is much higher quality than the same alert on an instrument with a squeeze score of 20. The first one is breaking out of compression; the second one is just changing direction within ongoing chop.

Delivery

Alerts can be delivered via in-app banners, email, push notification, and Telegram. You can configure these per-watchlist on the watchlist page and globally in your notification settings. See the watchlist and delivery article for the full setup.