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FAQ

How to start

When you open the app, the first thing you need to do to get started is creating either a customer alarm or watchlist.

Custom alarms lets you define a trigger for a specific symbol, where you will be alerted.
Watchlists allows you to track the prices of symbols in real-time with millisecond delay.

Alarms

Create an alarm

From the Alarm main page, press the + symbol top right to search

Enter symbol name or code, e.g. Tesla and press search

Select your symbol of choice. The prices showing next to symbols in search result are latest known closing price which helps you navigate to the right symbol.

Target alarm is the default alarm type, but you can select between “Target”, “Day change” and “Trailing” alarms from the top menu.

Create a target alarm

This alarm alerts you if the specific target price is reached or crossed.

Entry: Default is last closing price, you can change it if you want but not needed. If you already bought the stock, e.g. input the price where you bought it.

Target: The target where you would like the alarm to trigger and notify you, can be both lower or higher than current price.

Realtime: If ON we monitor the price every minute within exchange opening hours, if OFF we only check after market closes once per trading day.

Add note: Allows you to add a note about the alarm as text, and tags of your choice/name, to easily find it later among other alarms.

Save and activate the alarm by pressing checkmark icon top right.

Create a day change alarm

This alarm alerts you if the specific change is reached or exceeded.

Change: Set the percent change where you want the alarm to trigger.

“Arrows“: Select “up”, “down” or “up/down” to define which change to monitor. Selecting 5% change and “up/down” means alarm will trigger at both -5% and +5% change.

Realtime: If ON we monitor the price every minute within exchange opening hours, if OFF we only check after market closes once per trading day.

Add note: Allows you to add a note about the alarm as text, and tags of your choice/name, to easily find it later among other alarms.

Save and activate the alarm by pressing checkmark icon top right.

Create a trailing alarm

This alarm tracks the top or bottom from the price movements and alerts you if the change from there is reached or exceeded.

Entry: Default is last closing price, you can change it if you want but not needed.

Change: Set the percent change from top/bottom where you want an alert

“Arrows“: Select “up” to get notified if the stock price moves x % up from the lowest price tracked or “down” to get notified if the stock price drops x % from its top

Realtime: If ON we monitor the price every minute within exchange opening hours, if OFF we only check after market closes once per trading day.

Add note: Allows you to add a note about the alarm as text, and tags of your choice/name, to easily find it later among other alarms.

Save and activate the alarm by pressing checkmark icon top right.

Adding a note/tag to an alarm

As you create an alarm, it is possible to add a comment and set tags of your choice on the alarm. This enables you to easily find it through the filter option on the main alarm page.

Note, the filter options don’t show until you have +3 alarms created.

It is also possible to change the note and tags if you edit an alarm.

Edit/pause/delete alarm

From the main alarm page, swipe left on an alarm card to view options to edit, pause or delete it.

Edit allows you to change the settings of the alarm. It is not possible to change alarm type (target, day change, trailing), but you can edit the settings within the alarm as e.g. target or change percent.

Delete disables and removes the alarm.

Pause disables the alarm, but keeps it in your list. You can always swipe and activate it again.

Filter/sort alarms

If you add more than 3 custom alarms, the filter/sort widget appears in bottom of the alarm page. Pressing this opens a menu that allows you to apply filters to find the alarms of your choice, or change how they are sorted on the alarm page.

Watchlist

There are two main elements of the watchlist section: the main list page, and specific lists.

The main list page shows you an overview of created lists, and the first 5 symbols in them (you can sort the symbols manually, to control which are visible directly from the main page). Each list are shown with the name given and date of last known updated price from a symbol in the list.

The specific list page shows you the entire watchlist and the stocks/symbols you added. You get to this by pressing the list.

Create watchlist

From the empty list page, either press the popular symbols on the screen or the + top right, to create a new list. Pressing the popular symbols instantly creates a list, with this symbol as the first added.

Pressing the + icon top right, gives you the ability to search and find any symbol you wan to add to your list. Search for a symbol and select it to create the list. This also takes you to the specific list page.

You can create an unlimited amount of lists. Access them from the main list page showing on the main list page with the (up to) first 5 symbols in each.

There can be up to 100 symbols added in each list. You see them all by pressing anywhere on the list, from the main liste page.

Edit watchlist

From the main list page, press anywhere on a list to open it. You are now on the specific list page with the list title showing in the top.

Search to add new symbols to the list.

From the specific list page tap the pen icon (“edit”) top right, to edit settings for the list as e.g. name, automatic alarms and delete the list.

Toggle automate list alarms on/off

From the specific list page tap the pen icon (“edit”) top right, to edit settings for the list.

Here you see a list of optional automatic alarms you can activate for the symbols in this specific list. Use the toggle to turn them on/off.

Turning on e.g. “Insider transactions” will alert you if any known insiders trade the symbol.

Re-arange symbols in watchlist

From the specific list page: press, hold and drag any symbol up/down to sort the list. This way you control which you see in the top and thereby on the main list page.

Delete watchlist

From the specific list page, tap the pen icon (“edit”) top right. On the edit page you will see a Delete option for the list. Press it to fully remove the list.

Widgets

You can add two type of widgets: one that that’s always visible on your lock screen and one that shows on your home screen among your app icons.

Lock screen widget

This widget enables you to always keep an eye on the alarms you have set that are closest to reaching their target.

Add the widget directly from your lock screen by “long tapping” the lock screen, choose Edit, select lock screen and press the widget area below the time. Scroll down to find Stock Alert.

Important note – widgets updates values automatically, these updates are controlled by Apple/your device based on how you use your phone. We can’t push updates to the widget.

Home screen widget

This widget is more rich than the lock screen widget, but has the same intention. It allows you to keep an eye on the alarms you have set that are closest to reaching their target.

Add the widget directly from your home screen by “long tapping” the screen, press add (+) top left, scroll down to find Stock Alert app and add the widget.

Important note – the widget updates values automatically, these updates are controlled by Apple/your device based on how you use your phone. We can’t push updates to the widget.

View charts

Charts with price details are available for 1 day – 2 years.

You can access it by pressing a specific alarm card from the main Alarm page or any asset from any watchlist.

The chart shows last three months default, hold and slide your finger to view price at any date or use the periods to filter and view e.g. last day, week, month etc.

View investor info

You can access it by pressing a specific alarm card from the main Alarm page or any asset from any watchlist. It shows directly below the chart section if available.

It differs from symbol to symbol what information is available, but usually general company info, valuation details, investor info and analyst ratings and price.

Search for symbols

When searching for a symbol to add a custom alarm or add it to a watchlist, notice you can search for both ticker and company name.

We support +120k symbols from many exchanges worldwide, so use the price (last known closing price) to identify the right symbol you want to track.

Upgrade to Pro

From the bottom menu, access the Pro page.

We offer two options – a monthly or yearly membership.

On activation you will instantly have the Pro features available.

If you are Pro, but it appears the app did not register the upgrade or tells you you are not Pro, navigate to the Pro page, scroll to the bottom and click the “Restore purchase” link. It will now instantly restore your Pro subscription.

You can always see your current membership status in the Settings – Account menu, it will state Pro if you are Pro.

Settings

Set custom alarm sounds

Navigate to Settings page using the bottom menu and you will see the option to set a custom alarm for normal and realtime alarms.

Normal alarms are those that trigger end of day only, once.

Realtime alarms trigger every minute throughout the exchange opening hours.

Set language

If you want to override the language set automatic by the app, you can do so from the Settings page by accessing the Language option.

Log out

From the Settings page, press the account option.

Here you will find a log out option, which allows you to e.g. change account if you hold several.

This will also automatically pause all alarms on your account!

Delete account

From the Settings page, press the account option.

Here you will find the Delete option. Pressing this fully deletes your account and all details/alarms/list within it.

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