Alerts
SpreadFighter alerts: where to create them, which types are available on Free, Pro and Max, and how to connect Telegram and a webhook.
An alert watches a condition on the server and sends a notification when it is met: price broke a level, open interest grew, a large liquidation hit the market. You can create alerts only after signing in: guests have no alerts.
Where to create an alert
Control Panel
The main place is the Alerts tab of the Control Panel. The Create button opens the Create Alert window with five tabs:
- Presets — ready-made alerts in one click and a separate liquidation alert;
- Basic — name (required) and description;
- Conditions — data source, symbol, operator and threshold;
- Notifications — delivery channels, a custom message and priority;
- Advanced — the cooldown between repeated triggers.
One alert can have several conditions, each with its own data source. Conditions are combined with ALL (all must be met) or ANY (one is enough).
The current value of the metric is shown next to the threshold; one button copies it into the threshold.
Chart
There are two ways to set a price alert on the chart:
- the "+" menu at the price scale → Alert @ price;
- the Quick alert hotkey (Alt + A by default) — an alert at the level under the pointer.
If the level is below the current price, the alert fires when price crosses it downwards; if above, upwards. Such an alert is one-shot: after it fires, it gets the Triggered status and sends no more notifications.
An active price alert is shown on the chart as a line. You can drag it to another price and delete it right from the line. Where chart alerts arrive (Only Web, Only Telegram or Both) is set in the chart panel settings, see Chart. If only Telegram is selected and the bot is not connected, the alert arrives on the site.
Price alerts from the chart work only for Binance futures. For Hyperliquid, Aster, Bybit, OKX, forex and synthetic symbols the item is inactive.
Liquidation feed
The alert settings of the Liq widget have a Server alert with these filters button. It opens the liquidation alert form with the feed's filters.
Alert types and plans
| Data source | What it tracks | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Close of the Binance futures 1-minute candle | Free |
| Volume | Volume of the Binance futures 1-minute candle | Free |
| Open Interest | Open interest on Binance | Pro |
| RSI (14) | RSI on a timeframe from 1 minute to 1 day | Pro |
| Funding Rate | Funding rate | Pro |
| VWAP σ (day, week, month, quarter) | Price deviation from the period VWAP in sigmas | Pro |
| Spot over perp spread, % | How much the spot trades above the Binance futures | Pro |
| Liquidations | Large liquidations on Binance, Hyperliquid, Bybit and OKX | Pro |
| Manipulation (Price Correlation) | Manipulation monitor activity by price, % | Max |
| Manipulation (Volume Correlation) | Manipulation monitor activity by volume, % | Max |
In the creation window each data source and preset carries a plan badge. The ones not available on your plan are visible but locked.
If an alert was created on a higher plan and the plan went down, the alert is not deleted. In the list it shows the Inactive: above your plan status, and a liquidation alert shows Inactive: needs Pro. Once the plan is back, it works again.
Presets
Presets fill in the conditions for you. You can change the threshold later on the Conditions tab.
| Group | Presets | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| RSI Indicators | RSI Overbought (RSI > 70), RSI Oversold (RSI < 30) | Pro |
| Price Alerts | Price Above, Price Below | Free |
| Volume Alerts | Volume Spike | Free |
| Open Interest | OI Above, OI Below | Pro |
| Manipulation Monitor | High Price Manipulation (> 50%), High Volume Manipulation (> 70%) | Max |
| Spot vs perp | Spot over perp ≥ 2% | Pro |
| VWAP σ | VWAP day +2σ, VWAP day −2σ, VWAP week +2σ, VWAP week −2σ | Pro |
| Liquidations | Large liquidations | Pro |
The manipulation, spread and VWAP σ presets watch the whole market at once.
One symbol, several or the whole market
RSI, manipulations, VWAP σ and the spot–perp spread have a Symbol Selection Mode:
- Single — one symbol;
- Multiple — a list of symbols. The Load from Folder button takes the symbols from a favorites folder;
- All Market — the alert fires for any symbol.
VWAP σ
A VWAP σ alert fires when a coin enters beyond the threshold, not the whole time it stays there. It fires again for the same coin only after the coin moves back into the zone by at least 0.5σ and crosses the threshold again. Without this, a ±2σ alert on the whole market would send dozens of coins in every notification.
Liquidation alerts
The server checks a liquidation alert around the clock, even when the site is closed. The form sets:
- Exchanges — Binance, Hyperliquid, Bybit, OKX;
- Minimum size of one liquidation, $ — on Hyperliquid one liquidation arrives as several fills in one block; their total is compared;
- Who was liquidated — any, longs or shorts;
- the symbols of each exchange — at most 200 per exchange. If you need more, choose "any symbol";
- Hyperliquid market groups — the main market and the HIP-3 groups;
- Pause between notifications — the first liquidation is sent at once; the rest during the pause arrive as one summary.
A liquidation alert stays on after it fires. Liquidations older than a minute (backfill after a stream gap) are not sent.
Repeated triggers
The Advanced tab turns on the cooldown: from 30 seconds to 30 minutes, 30 seconds by default. While the condition holds, the alert sends a notification at most once per cooldown.
If you turn the cooldown off, the alert fires once and gets the Triggered status. The Resume button in the list turns it back on.
Notification channels
On the Notifications tab you can turn on one or more channels.
Web notification
The notification appears on the open site and goes to the Notifications tab of the Control Panel. The Sound checkbox turns on a sound signal. It is shared by all alerts in this browser.
To have the notification pop up also when the tab is in the background or the window is not in focus, allow OS notifications: at the top of the Alerts tab there is an Allow OS notifications button. If the browser did not show its prompt, click the icon left of the address bar and allow notifications for the site.
Telegram
Telegram notifications arrive even when the site is closed. To connect the bot:
- Open the Alerts tab. While you have no alerts, it shows the Connect Telegram notifications block.
- Copy the registration command of the form
/register <your UID>. - Press Open bot (the bot is @sf_notifications_bot) and send it this command.
Until Telegram is connected, a new alert sends a web notification by default.
Telegram notifications do not arrive if the Receive alert notifications checkbox is cleared in your account. If you blocked the bot, send /register again after unblocking it.
Webhook
A webhook sends a request to your URL when the alert fires. It is turned on with the Webhook (Pionex Signal Bot or custom URL) checkbox. The Destination field has two options:
- Pionex Signal Bot — a signal to a Pionex bot. How to set it up is covered in the article SpreadFighter alerts → Pionex Signal Bot.
- Custom webhook — a request to any URL. The URL must start with
https://. You write the request body yourself; it supports the placeholders{{symbol}},{{price}},{{value}},{{metric}},{{threshold}},{{alertName}},{{message}},{{time}},{{timenow}}.
If the webhook places trades, every repeat trigger after the cooldown is another order. Test the setup with a small size.
Alert list
On the Alerts tab each alert shows its name, condition, status (Active, Triggered, Paused) and creation time. If an alert has one symbol, a click on the name opens it on the linked charts; if it has several, there is a button for each below the name.
Row actions: Edit, Pause or Resume, Delete. The Remove all button deletes the whole list after confirmation.
The "Notifications" tab
Triggered web alerts go to the Notifications tab of the Control Panel together with screener signals and trading events. A repeat trigger of the same alert replaces its earlier entry. The log is stored in this browser and keeps the latest 500 entries. More in the article Control Panel.
Limits
- Alerts are available only after signing in.
- Price and volume alerts listen to Binance futures. From the chart, a price alert can be set only on Binance symbols.
- A liquidation alert holds at most 200 symbols per exchange.
- The webhook URL must be
https://; for the Pionex preset, only a pionex.com URL. - The notification log keeps the latest 500 entries in this browser.