The three kinds of alerts
aftermarkets supports three alert types, each suited to a different workflow:
- Price alerts: fire when a stock crosses a price you specify. "Let me know if RELIANCE drops below ₹2,400."
- Signal alerts: fire when a specific technical signal triggers on a watched stock. "Tell me when HDFCBANK hits a 52-week high."
- Filing alerts: fire when a material corporate filing is published. "Notify me of any earnings announcements or board meetings for TCS."
Setting a price or signal alert
The fastest path is from the stock page itself. Click the bell icon next to the action buttons in the compact hero. The alert dialog opens pre-filled with the current symbol and price.
Pick alert type
Price alert (above/below a threshold) or signal alert (a specific signal type triggers).
Set the condition
For a price alert: choose above or below, then enter the threshold. For a signal alert: pick from the dropdown (volume spike, 52-week high, MACD crossover, etc.). The options come from the screener's signal types.
Pick notification channels
By default, alerts fire to in-app notifications (the bell badge) and to push notifications on the mobile app, if you have it installed. You can disable either independently.
Save
The alert is now live. Active alerts show on the Alerts page. They fire once per condition match (no duplicate firings on the same trigger event).
Filing alerts
Filing alerts work differently because they're not stock-specific by default; they're filtered by materiality and your watchlist.
In Settings → Notifications, pick your filing-alert filter:
- Material only: only filings the engine classifies as materially impactful (earnings, board meetings, fundraising, M&A, regulatory orders). Lowest volume, highest signal.
- Material + context (default): material filings plus a few contextual ones (significant order wins, large deal disclosures). Recommended for most users.
- All filings: every announcement, including procedural ones (e.g. trading window closure notices). Highest volume, useful for analysts who want everything.
Filing alerts automatically include any stock on your watchlist. There's no per-stock filing alert to set: the system pushes whenever any watched company files.
Where alerts arrive
By delivery channel:
- In-app: the bell icon's badge increments. Open the alerts page to see the trigger.
- Push (mobile app required): native push notification on your phone after an eligible firing is captured and dispatched.
- WhatsApp (Pro): material filings on your watchlist, pushed to your linked WhatsApp number. Set up at Settings → WhatsApp.
- Telegram (via @AfterMarkets_Bot): link your account at Settings → Telegram; the bot DMs you when filings on watched symbols arrive.
Rearming and daily limits
A triggered alert stays in your history until you reset or delete it. Reset becomes available after its saved cooldown: 60 minutes by default, configurable from 1 minute to 7 days. The reset control shows the remaining wait. Editing the cooldown after a firing does not shorten that firing's saved deadline. Rearming checks the condition again; it does not require the price to cross away and back first.
Price, technical and conviction alerts share a daily firing limit: 5 on Free, 50 on Pro and 250 on Max, resetting at 00:00 UTC (5:30 AM IST). At the limit, an alert stays armed for a later check and creates no notification. Deleting and recreating an alert does not reset the account's daily count. These firing limits are separate from the number of active alerts.
Price and technical alerts are checked every 2 minutes during the scheduled market-hours runs. Notification delivery can take longer depending on the channel.
Managing alerts
The Alerts page lists every active alert, with status (armed, triggered, expired) and the firing history. Edit, pause, or delete from there.
Open the alerts page