Alert Guidelines

Hours

You can set up and activate alerts or alerts created from templates at any time (including outside of standard market hours) and they will display in the Alerts tab.

However, because alerts require updated Level 1 quote information to function, they will not initialize until the next trading session.

After Hours

Index Alerts

Alerts for indices should only be set up using the variables Trade Price, Change from Open, and Change from Close. Although you can create alerts for indices using other variables such as Bid or Ask, these alerts will never trigger because the variables do not exist for indices.

After an Alert Triggers