This post introduces a new feature to the site – Price Alerts. This isn’t your basic simple price alert like your broker offers. Yes, you can enter a share price target as an alert, but you can also be alerted to price crossing above or below a moving average or a moving average crossing above or below another moving average. Also, if you prefer price retracements, you can set an x% retracement (up or down) from a point in time, and you will get an emailed alert when the retracement happens.

Several of you have requested something like this over the past few years, and we’ve been putting it off. Finally, we took your requests and built something around them. Alerts are built on top of Portfolios so you can easily create Alerts for one or more of your existing Portfolios. Or, if you create a special Portfolio for your Alerts, you still have all the functionality of standard Portfolios such as performance reports and screening. Continue reading →