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Setting up your first alert

Save a scan, attach an alert, and have Tradient email you the moment a setup actually appears.

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Once you’ve found a scan you like, you don’t want to run it manually every morning. Save it, attach an alert, and Tradient will run it on a schedule and email (or webhook) you the moment something hits.

The mental model

Alerts in Tradient have three parts:

  • A saved scan.The exact filter set you want to monitor — strategy, parameters, watchlist or universe. Saving freezes the “query” so reruns are deterministic.
  • A trigger condition.What has to be true for an alert to fire. Most users start with “at least one result with Tradient Score ≥ 70.” You can also gate on POP, edge, or count of results.
  • A delivery channel. Email, webhook, or both. Premium tiers can fire to multiple channels per alert.

The walkthrough

  1. 1

    Run a scan you like

    Open Radarand run any scan — a goal card, a library template, or a custom one. Tweak the filters until the result set looks like what you actually want to be notified about. The first row of the table is usually a good calibration: if it’s “the kind of trade I’d take if I saw it,” your filters are right.

  2. 2

    Save the scan

    Click Save scanin the action bar. Give it a name (“Wheel candidates Mon-Fri”), optionally tag it, and confirm. Saved scans live under the Saved tab on Radar and can be re-run with one click.

  3. 3

    Open the saved scan and click 'Add alert'

    From the Saved tab, hover the scan row and click the bell icon (or open the scan and use the action bar). The alert modal slides up.

  4. 4

    Choose a trigger

    The simplest and most useful trigger is any result with Tradient Score ≥ X. Pick a score threshold that filters out noise — 65 is a sensible starting point. You can also set:

    • Result count ≥ N— fire only if at least N rows pass. Useful for “notify me if there are more than 5 wheel candidates today.”
    • POP ≥ X — fire only if the top result has at least X% probability of profit.
    • Edge ≥ $X — fire only if the trade edge in dollars passes a floor.
  5. 5

    Pick a schedule

    Free tier alerts run once per day at market open. Pro tier adds intraday cadences (every 15 min, every hour) and custom market-hours windows. Pick what fits your style — if you’re trading credit spreads on a swing horizon, once a day is plenty.

  6. 6

    Pick a channel

    Email goes to your account address by default. If you want it to land somewhere else, add it in Profile. Webhook URLs accept any HTTPS endpoint and post a JSON payload — see the webhook reference for the schema.

  7. 7

    Save and walk away

    Hit Save alert. The alert is live immediately and will fire on its next scheduled run. You can pause, edit, or delete it from Account → Alerts.

Quiet alerts are good alerts
The most common new-user mistake is setting alerts too sensitive — score ≥ 50, daily — and then ignoring them after the third false-positive in a week. Pick a threshold high enough that an alert means “something I’d actually consider trading,” not “the scan ran.”

What an alert email looks like

When an alert fires, the email contains: the saved scan name, the trigger that matched, a table of the top 10 qualifying results with score / strategy / POP / edge / max P&L, and a deep link straight back to the scan in Radar so you can open it, run any of the rows in Focus mode, and act.

Webhook payloads contain the full result list as JSON, plus the alert metadata. See the webhook docs for the schema and a curl example.

Where to go next

  • All alert types and thresholds — the full menu of trigger conditions, including price, IV-rank, and earnings-window alerts.
  • Watchlists — alerts inherit the watchlist their saved scan was built against, so managing the list well is half the battle.