Managing alerts

Alerts help you monitor stocks without constantly watching the market. In Moula, alerts email you when a stock's price, valuation, or technical indicators cross a level you care about.

You can use alerts to track potential entry points, monitor downside risk, or simply follow important levels on your watchlist, such as:

  • a stock reaching a target entry price
  • a valuation ratio moving above or below a level
  • a technical indicator crossing a threshold

Creating an Alert

You can set alerts in multiple ways:

  • from any page, using the search bar to search for an asset that is in your favorites
  • in the favorites list page, by clicking on the three dots to the left of any favorite to access its action menu
  • in the details page of any favorite by clicking on the set alert button
  • from the alerts page by clicking on the set alert button

When creating an alert, choose:

  • the stock
  • the alert type
  • the condition
  • the threshold or reference value

The available alert types are:

  • Price
  • P/S ratio and P/E ratio
  • RSI 14, MACD, and Stochastic
  • Signal, a combined reading of RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, and Stochastic

Thresholds can be a fixed value. Price alerts can also follow the 30, 100, or 200-day moving average, or the upper or lower Bollinger band. P/S and P/E alerts can also follow the stock's own 1, 3, or 5-year average.

Alerts are checked once a day, after the US market close. When a condition is met, you receive an email the day it first triggers.

You can create multiple alerts for the same stock if you want to monitor different thresholds.

Viewing Your Alerts

All alerts can be managed from the Alerts page.

There you can see:

  • the stock the alert applies to
  • the alert type, condition, and threshold, next to the current value
  • whether the alert is active, and when it last triggered

This allows you to keep track of all monitored levels in one place.

Editing an Alert

If your view changes or the original threshold is no longer useful, edit the alert instead of creating a new one.

You can update the condition, threshold, or reference. The updated alert will be evaluated using the new settings.

To modify an alert, go to the Alerts page, and simply click on the alert you want to edit.

Pause and resume an alert

Pausing an alert keeps it saved in your account but stops it from being evaluated until you turn it back on.

Use this when an alert is temporarily irrelevant but you may want it again later.

Deleting an Alert

If an alert is no longer relevant:

  1. Open the Alerts page.
  2. Locate the alert.
  3. Click the three dots to its left.
  4. Click Delete.

The alert will be removed from your list and will no longer trigger.

Alerts limit

The Free plan includes 10 alerts. On the Paid plan, you get as many alerts as favorites. Alerts on archived favorites, or on favorites locked because you're over your plan's limit, pause until the favorite is active again.

Typical Uses for Alerts

Alerts are commonly used to monitor key levels.

Examples include:

  • a
  • buy target
  • for a stock you are waiting to enter
  • a price breakout level
  • a valuation multiple falling back to its historical average
  • a risk threshold if a stock falls below a certain price

Using alerts lets you follow markets without continuously checking charts.