Four things worth waking up for

An alert is a promise that you do not have to watch. Four kinds cover what actually moves an income trader’s positions: a price level, a P/L percentage on an open position, an earnings date, and an ex-dividend date. The evaluator checks them every minute the market is open.

Creating one

1. 1Open Alerts and choose the kind.
2. 2Point it at a ticker — or at a specific open position for the P/L kind, where “up 50%” is usually the take-profit conversation.
3. 3Set the level. Earnings and ex-div alerts need no level; they fire as the date approaches so the short put you sold through earnings is never a surprise.

Where they land

Fired alerts land at the bell in the top bar with an unread badge; opening it shows the recent events and marks them seen. Each event names what fired and why. Dismiss an alert to retire it, or re-arm it to keep watching the same line.

• Your devices (Pro): enable notifications on a phone or desktop and a fired alert lands there as a push, even with the app closed — see Install the app & push alerts.
• The margin ceiling is its own alert on Margin / Cash — a borrowing level in dollars or utilization percent.
• The evening digest (Pro) recaps everything that fired during the day, so a missed bell still reaches you — see Daily digest.