- Alerts on any symbol you follow — above or below a price you choose, as many as you want.
- One place for everything waiting — the bell in the top bar counts alerts that fired and messages together, so there is one thing to check rather than three.
- No tier and no cap. Alerts are not the feature we hold back to sell you something.
What is a stock price alert?
A price alert is a rule that tells you when a stock reaches a level you chose. You set the symbol and the price; when the market gets there, you are notified. That is all it does, and the "that is all" is the point — an alert transfers the job of watching from you to the software, and gives nothing else away.
An alert is not a limit order
This is the distinction worth being clear about, because the two are often described in the same breath and they do opposite things to your decision-making.
A limit order is an instruction to your broker to buy or sell at a specified price or better. It acts. Once it is placed, the decision has been made in advance and the market executes it whether or not you are paying attention — which is exactly what you want when you have thought it through, and exactly what you do not want when you have not.
An alert acts on nothing. It tells you the level was reached and hands the decision back to you, at a moment when you can look at why the price got there. Those are genuinely different tools: an order is a decision you have already made, an alert is a decision you have arranged to make later, with more information.
| Price alert | Limit order | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Tells you | Trades |
| Who decides | You, when it fires | You, in advance |
| If you are asleep | Nothing happens | It may fill |
| Good for | A level worth a fresh look | A decision already made |
| On SigniBull | Free and unlimited | Simulated — we are not a broker |
Why most alert lists stop working
The same way most watchlists do, and faster: an alert you dismiss without acting has trained you to dismiss the next one.
This is not a metaphor about discipline, it is how attention works. Set fifteen alerts and several will fire on any active day. Most will not be worth doing anything about, because a price crossing a round number is not by itself information. After a fortnight of glancing and swiping, the notification has become noise, and the one alert that mattered arrives looking exactly like the fourteen that did not.
So the test for an alert is not "would I like to know?" — you would like to know everything. It is "if this fires, what will I do?" If the honest answer is "look at it", that is not a reason; you can look at it whenever you like. If the answer is "buy", "sell", "read the news and then decide", or "close the position I said I would close at this level", the alert has a job.
What is worth an alert
Three kinds, roughly, and they have in common that something changes when they fire.
A price you said you would act at. The most useful alert in existence is the one that catches you keeping a promise you made to yourself when you were calm. If you decided a position becomes a mistake below a certain price, the alert is what makes that decision survive contact with the day it happens.
A level that would change the reasoning. Not a round number — a level where the story you believed stops being the story. Those are worth a fresh look because the answer is genuinely unknown until you look.
A price you would start buying at. The mirror image, and the one people under-use. Deciding in advance what you would pay is much easier than deciding it while watching a price fall.
What is generally not worth an alert: a daily percentage move, because the market produces them constantly and none of them mean anything on their own; and a round number, because the round number is in your head rather than in the company.
Our alerts and unread direct messages share one bell, and that was a decision rather than a shortcut. Two separate indicators means two things to check, and the second one is always the one you forget — so the count in the top bar is everything waiting for you, from any source.
What we deliberately did not do: turn every new post in a busy channel into a notification. One row per message would have drowned the bell within a day and made the red dot meaningless, which is the same failure this page is about, arriving from our side instead of yours. Channels show unread activity in the sidebar where you are already looking, and the bell is kept for things that actually want you.
Are stock price alerts free?
On SigniBull, yes — free, unlimited, no tier and no credit card. Set them from any chart or any watchlist, and they appear in the same bell as everything else waiting for you.
Trading here is simulated: we are not a broker, so an alert on SigniBull genuinely only tells you. Whatever you do next happens somewhere else, which — given everything above — is arguably the right place for the decision to live.
We have no testimonials. The platform is new and we are not going to invent any. What we have instead is the thing testimonials are a proxy for: every position opened through the app is priced and timestamped by us and written to a log that cannot be edited or deleted by anyone, including an administrator. Losses stay in. A member's own typed-in history is kept separate, labelled, and counts towards nothing anyone else sees.
Free, no credit card, no tier. Trading here is simulated, and none of this is investment advice.
SigniBull is not a broker and the trading is simulated — you are practising and comparing ideas, not moving real money. Market data comes from outside providers and can be delayed or incomplete. Not investment advice.