If you want to know the second Bitcoin drops below a specific price, email is the wrong channel. You'll read it the next morning, which is another way of saying you didn't get an alert at all. Telegram buzzes your phone immediately, which is the entire point.
Here's how to set one up in about two minutes, without writing any code or paying for anything.
Step 1: Decide the number before you open anything
Pick the price that would actually change your behavior. Not a round number you like the look of — the level where you'd add, exit, or stop caring. If you can't say what you'd do when it fires, the alert is just anxiety with a notification sound.
Write down one number for the downside and one for the upside. Two is enough.
Step 2: Build the condition
The simplest version is a single rule:
BTC < 78000
That fires the moment Bitcoin trades under your level. Good enough for most people, most of the time.
Step 3: Cover both directions in one rule with OR
Most traders set one alert for support, another for resistance, and end up with a cluttered list they eventually mute. You don't need two alerts — you need one rule with two legs:
BTC < 78000 OR BTC > 84000
One notification either way, and which leg fires tells you which scenario is playing out. The alert stops being noise and starts being information.
Step 4: Use AND to filter out fake breaks
Thin order books produce violent wicks that reverse in minutes, especially around news. If you've been burned buying a spike that unwound before you finished typing, don't widen your level — add a confirming condition:
BTC < 78000 AND XAU < 4500
Now you're only pinged when the move has agreement across markets, not when a single exchange gets swept. Same setup time, far fewer false alarms.
Step 5: Route it to Telegram
Connect Telegram as your delivery channel and the alert lands on your lock screen the moment the condition is true. This is the step that turns a price level into something you can act on.
Then stop watching
That's the part people skip. Once the rule exists, staring at the chart adds nothing except the chance you'll talk yourself out of your own plan. The alert is watching. You don't have to.
DoneRoad is a free no-code alert builder for crypto, stocks, forex, metals and oil. Stack AND/OR conditions in a few clicks, see your rule written out in plain English before you save it, and get notified on Telegram or email. Free during beta — set up your first alert.
