Alerts
Be told when a company's sentiment, buzz, forecast or a macro figure crosses a level you choose — in the app and by e-mail.
An alert triggers when its measure crosses your threshold. Every trigger is listed in your alert history and counted on the bell at the top of the page. Alerts are part of Premium; your plan sets how many you can keep.
Create an alert
On Alerts, under Create an alert:
- Symbol — what to watch: a company (
c_84), an index (in_…), a currency pair (fx_…) or a commodity (cm_…). For macro figures,nowcast:us-gdporsurprise:US(see below). - Measure — what to compare with your threshold.
- When it — rises to or above or falls to or below.
- Threshold, and for some measures a Scale or the number of Days ahead.
- Choose Create alert.
Measures
| Measure | Threshold | For |
|---|---|---|
| Sentiment, Buzz | −1 to +1, or 0 to 10 (5 neutral), per the Scale you pick | companies |
| Volume (articles) | a number of articles | companies |
| Sentiment forecast, Buzz forecast | as above, 1 to 10 Days ahead | companies, indices, currencies, commodities |
| Volatility forecast (annualised) | a decimal: 0.25 is 25 %, 1 to 21 Trading days ahead | companies, indices, currencies, commodities |
| Macro nowcast (median) | in the figure's own unit | nowcast:<key>, for example nowcast:us-gdp |
| Release surprise (sd vs nowcast) | −10 to +10 standard deviations; fires on each release at or beyond it | nowcast:<key> |
| Country surprise index (sd) | −10 to +10 standard deviations | surprise:<country>, for example surprise:US |
| Technical indicator | in the indicator's unit; computed once a day on end-of-day prices | companies, indices, currencies, commodities |
An exchange (ex_…) cannot carry an alert.
Start from a forecast
Alert me on a forecast — on a company page, the watchlist or a nowcast — opens this form already filled in. For a forecast it also suggests thresholds, such as the top or bottom of the 90 % interval, and says how likely the forecast makes each one.
Pause, resume, delete
Each alert shows when it last triggered. Pause keeps it without checking it — it still counts toward your plan's limit; Resume turns it back on. Delete removes it, and its history with it.
How you are told
- In FinSentS: the trigger appears in your history and on the bell, live.
- By e-mail, at your verified address (verify it). The history shows, for each trigger, whether it was e-mailed.