Alerts and Telegram setup

Alerts let the platform watch the market for you and notify your phone the moment one of your symbols breaches a Volatility Box model. This guide covers connecting Telegram and scoping alerts so you get the few that matter instead of a flood.

Watch: Part 8 of the Volatility Box onboarding series.

Why alerts

A watchlist still asks you to look inside the platform. Alerts remove that. Once set up, the platform watches the market and taps you on the shoulder the moment one of your symbols breaches a model, in real time during market hours. This is useful if you have a full-time job and cannot watch charts all day. The setups come to you instead of you hunting for them.

Step 1: connect Telegram

Alerts are delivered through Telegram, and connecting takes about a minute.

1. Open the Alerts page in the platform. It pulls up a QR code.
2. Click Connect Telegram and scan the QR code with your phone.
3. If Telegram is already installed, the link completes on its own. If not, install the free app first, then scan.

That is the entire connection step. If the connect link expires, refresh the Alerts page and it regenerates automatically.

Step 2: scope the alerts you want

This is the step that matters most, because it is easy to get overwhelmed when the market is moving. Scope alerts in three layers so only the trades you would actually take reach your phone.

Layer 1: watchlist

Choose which watchlist is allowed to send alerts. You may not want alerts from every list, or from the large built-in ones. The S&P 100 is big enough to flood your phone. Point alerts at a focused list instead. This is the practical reason to keep watchlists tight: a smaller list means fewer, higher-quality alerts.

Layer 2: direction

Filter by direction. A long-only trader selects long alerts and ignores shorts, so they do not distract or take over the phone. Short-only traders do the reverse.

Layer 3: model and sensitivity

Scope by model type. A conservative trader can ignore the hourly models and keep just the daily, or just the daily conservative. That returns a small number of high-quality alerts that fire only when price breaches outside the models. Match the selection to how you trade, and each alert carries the weight it should when it lands.

Do not select all symbols

Resist turning everything on. Selecting all symbols by default buries the breach that mattered under notifications you learn to ignore. One validated volatility signal you will act on beats twenty you tune out. Keep the alert streamlined to the names you trade. Alert fatigue is real: once the phone buzzes all day, you stop trusting any of it.

How alerts fit the workflow

With Telegram connected and alerts scoped by watchlist, direction, and model, the handoff is complete. The platform watches the market, and the only alerts that reach you represent a genuine volatility edge in the names you trade. The research you did once in the backtester and saved to a watchlist now reaches you automatically every time the pattern triggers.

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