TradingView Free Alert Limit 2026: 3 Alerts, All Plans

How many alerts does the TradingView free plan allow in 2026?

As of November 2026, TradingView's pricing page says the free Basic plan includes 3 active price alerts. It lists no technical alerts (indicator, strategy or drawing alerts), no watchlist alerts and no webhook notifications. Basic alerts last up to one month. Paid plans start at Essential, which allows 20 price alerts and 20 technical alerts.

Many traders hit the cap on the second or third level they try to add. They are not doing anything wrong. TradingView limits how many alerts can be active at the same time, and the free limit is small by design, because alert capacity is one of the main differences between plans. The limit counts active alerts, not the levels you care about, and every workaround below starts from that fact.

What are the alert limits on each TradingView plan?

TradingView limits active alerts per plan, as of November 2026 per its pricing page. Basic (free) allows 3 price alerts. Essential allows 20 price and 20 technical alerts, Plus 100 and 100, Premium 400 and 400, and Ultimate 1,000 and 1,000. Webhook notifications start at Essential, and multi-condition alerts start at Plus.

Source: TradingView's pricing page and its help article How to get more active alerts per subscription, checked in November 2026. TradingView has changed these numbers and plan names before. Older articles mention Pro and Pro+ plans or different Basic limits, so check the pricing page before you decide.

Across every plan, TradingView alerts can reach you as a pop-up on the site, a notification in the TradingView app, an email or a sound. On Essential and above they can also go to a webhook URL. See TradingView's introduction to alerts for the full list.

Why do 3 free TradingView alerts run out so fast?

Three free TradingView price alerts run out fast because one trade idea usually needs two levels: one where you would act on a breakout and one where the idea is wrong. Three alerts cover about one and a half ideas. A normal watchlist of Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold and a forex pair needs far more.

Two other things drain free slots:

• Each alert holds one condition. "Tell me if BTC leaves the range between 78,000 and 84,000" is one idea, but on a single-condition alert it takes two slots. Multi-condition alerts, which combine several conditions into one alert, start at the Plus plan.
• Alerts expire and need re-arming. A Basic alert lasts up to a month. After that you have to set it again, so a busy watchlist becomes regular upkeep.

How can you get past the TradingView free alert limit without paying?

You can stay on TradingView's free Basic plan and still cover more levels in three ways. Set alerts per setup instead of per price line. Delete alerts that never lead to a decision. Move plain price-level alerts to a separate free alert tool, and keep TradingView for charting.

1. Alert on the zone, not every line

If you watch 1.0850, 1.0820 and 1.0790 on EUR/USD, that is three alerts for one decision: "tell me when price enters my buy zone." Put one alert at the outer edge of the zone. Once it fires you are looking at the chart anyway, and you can manage the finer levels by eye.

2. Keep "action" alerts, delete "information" alerts

Go through your active alerts and ask one question of each: if this fired, what would I do? If you have no answer, the alert is taking a slot and teaching you to ignore notifications. Keep only the levels where you would place, add to or close a trade, and set them on the timeframe you actually trade.

3. Move simple price alerts off the charting tool

Charting and alerting are separate jobs. A "tell me when X reaches Y" notification needs only price data and a way to reach you, not a chart. Moving those alerts to a separate tool leaves every TradingView slot free for alerts that need TradingView's indicators, drawings or Pine scripts.

What does a free alternative for TradingView price alerts look like?

DoneRoad is a free, no-code price-alert web app for crypto, global stocks, 100 forex pairs, precious metals and oil, covering 250+ assets. It has no alert cap during its beta. Rules combine conditions on one asset with AND/OR, and alerts arrive on Telegram, Discord, browser push or email. DoneRoad never places trades.

These are the parts that matter if you are working around a TradingView cap. All of them are described on the methodology page and the alert FAQ:

• One rule, several conditions. BTC < 78000 OR BTC > 84000 covers both sides of a range in one alert. BTC < 78000 AND a 1-hour drop of at least 2% stays quiet during a slow drift and fires only on a decisive break. Each alert watches one asset, so to cover Bitcoin and gold, set one alert on each and send both to the same Telegram chat. For more patterns, see multi-condition crypto price alerts.
• Change-over-time conditions. A condition can be a rise or fall of X percent, or X units, over 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, 1 day, 1 week or 1 month. It can also alert when a simple moving average (SMA 20, 50 or 200) or an exponential moving average (EMA 9, 12, 20, 50 or 200) crosses a level you set.
• A plain-English preview. Before you save, the builder rewrites the rule as a sentence, so a reversed < is easy to spot.
• Delivery you already read. Alerts arrive on Telegram, Discord, browser push or email; your alerts go to the one channel you set as primary in Settings, and you can switch it at any time. Telegram needs no webhook and no paid plan.

Side by side with TradingView's free plan (TradingView figures as of November 2026, from the pricing page above):

DoneRoad has limits too. It checks prices once a minute, so a spike that starts and reverses within the same minute is not seen. It is also not a charting platform: DoneRoad does not run Pine scripts or alert on drawings.

Need more than 3 alerts? Set yours free on DoneRoad: no alert cap during the beta, delivered to Telegram, Discord, browser push or email.

Should you upgrade TradingView or use a separate alert tool?

Upgrading TradingView makes sense if your alerts depend on TradingView itself: Pine Script strategies, custom indicators, drawings, watchlist alerts or webhooks into a trading bot. If most of your alerts just say "tell me when price reaches a level," a free separate tool can handle those while TradingView stays your charting tool.

If you only need to watch one coin, the Bitcoin price alert guide walks through a full setup without an exchange account.

What about the price alerts built into exchange and broker apps?

Exchange and broker alerts are usually one price level on one asset, limited to that platform’s markets, and delivered only through that app’s own push. If the app is closed, throttled or on a device you left at home, the alert effectively did not happen. Server-side alerts run without anything open.

Exchange app alerts vs server-side alerts

Example rule (illustrative levels, not current prices): one alert on BTC with “price below 92,000 OR price down 5% in 1 day”, delivered to Telegram. Watching gold and a stock too means separate alerts per asset, all landing in the same Telegram chat. Prices are checked once a minute, so an intra-minute spike that reverses can be missed. If you want something that acts rather than notifies, see price alert vs stop-loss.

What about the alerts built into my exchange app?

Exchange alerts are free and unlimited, but they only cover assets that exchange lists, usually only a single price level per alert, and they stop working if you log out or remove the app. They cannot combine a level with volume, a percentage move, or a moving-average reading.

Exchange alerts vs a dedicated alert tool

Example rule: asset BTC, conditions “price above 118,000 AND volume above your threshold”, sent to Telegram — the level alone is what an exchange gives you; the volume filter is what removes the breakouts that fade. Levels here are examples, not current prices. Each alert watches one asset; to watch several, create one alert per asset and send them all to the same Telegram chat. See multi-condition alerts for how AND/OR is built, and how to fix price alert fatigue if you already have too many running.

What is the best free alternative to TradingView alerts?

DoneRoad is a free price-alert tool that covers crypto, stocks, forex, gold and silver, and oil, with delivery to Telegram, Discord, browser push or email. It needs no exchange or broker account and no code. Each alert watches one asset, and AND/OR conditions stack on that same asset.

How the free alert options compare

What you give up by leaving a charting platform is the chart itself: DoneRoad is an alerting tool, not a terminal, and it never trades for you. Conditions available are a price level, a percentage or unit change over a window from 5 minutes to 1 month, RSI 14, SMA or EMA compared to a number, to the price or to another moving average, crosses-above / crosses-below triggers, and volume. There is no MACD condition; RSI 14 is supported. Prices are checked once a minute, so a spike that appears and reverses inside a single minute can be missed. Watching three assets means three separate alerts, which can all be sent to the same Telegram chat — see multi-condition alerts. If what you want is an automatic exit rather than a message, read price alert vs stop-loss.

Can I replace TradingView alerts completely?

Only for the alerting half. If your alerts are price levels, percentage moves, volume or a moving average against a number you choose, a free alert tool covers them. If they are custom Pine indicators or strategy signals, they stay on TradingView. Many traders keep a few alerts on the free plan and move the rest.

Can you get a moving average alert without TradingView or MetaTrader?

Yes, but check what kind. DoneRoad lets you set an alert on an asset’s SMA or EMA compared to a number you type in — for example “EMA 20 below 215”. It can also compare the price to its own average, or one moving average to another, and Crosses above / Crosses below fire once at the moment of the cross — for example SMA 50 (1D) crossing above SMA 200 (1D). For these MA alerts, no chart platform, broker account or installed indicator is needed.

DoneRoad is a free price-alert tool that watches crypto, stocks, forex, metals and oil and notifies you on Telegram, Discord, browser push or email. The honest limits: one alert watches exactly one asset, so an EMA rule on EUR/USD and the same rule on GBP/USD are two alerts, both deliverable to the same Telegram chat; conditions combined with AND/OR must all be on that same asset; SMA and EMA conditions can compare the moving average to a number you enter, to the price, or to another moving average, and crosses-above or crosses-below triggers fire once when the line is crossed; there is no MACD condition; prices are checked once a minute, so a move that appears and reverses inside a single minute can be missed; and DoneRoad only sends a message — it never places an order.

Which free price alert tools actually have no alert limit?

Most “unlimited” free tiers are either a trial or a single-asset-class app. DoneRoad is a free price-alert tool with no cap on how many alerts you create, across crypto, stocks, forex, gold, silver and oil, during its beta. There is no paid plan to upgrade to, no credit card, and no per-asset quota — the honest trade-off is listed further down this page.

How free alert tiers compare on limits

This table describes the shape of the limits, not live pricing — every vendor can change a tier, so check before you rely on one.

Because each DoneRoad alert watches exactly one asset, “no alert limit” is what makes a multi-asset watch practical: three assets means three alerts, and all three can be delivered to the same Telegram chat.

Does a higher alert limit mean more useful alerts?

No. The reason free tiers cap alerts is cost, not discipline, and removing the cap moves the problem to your phone. The useful limit is the one you set: one alert per level you would actually act on, and percentage-change conditions instead of a ladder of near-identical price levels.

What are the honest limits?

Prices are checked once per minute, so a spike that appears and reverses inside a single minute can be missed. Each alert watches exactly one asset, so a rule combining two different assets is not possible — that is two alerts. There are no RSI or MACD conditions and no crossover condition; SMA and EMA conditions compare the moving average to a number you type in, not to the price itself. DoneRoad sends notifications only and never places, moves or cancels an order. DoneRoad is free during beta, and beta means features can change.

Is there one free tool that covers crypto, stocks, forex and metals?

Yes. DoneRoad is a free, no-code price-alert tool where one account covers cryptocurrencies, global stocks, forex pairs, gold, silver, and WTI and Brent crude oil. You do not need an exchange account, a broker account or an API key. Alerts are delivered to Telegram, Discord, browser push or email, and the rules run on DoneRoad’s servers, so nothing stays installed on your device.

What most free alert options actually cover

How one DoneRoad alert is built

Each alert watches exactly one asset. On that asset you can combine conditions with AND and OR: a price level, a percentage or unit change measured over a window from 5 minutes to 1 day, an SMA or EMA compared to a number you type in, or trading volume. DoneRoad shows the finished rule back in plain English before you save it. Example levels below are illustrations, not current prices.

What it does not do

One alert watches one asset, so a rule mixing two markets — a crypto level AND a metals level in the same alert — cannot be built. Covering five assets means five alerts, which can all be pointed at the same Telegram chat. Prices are checked once a minute, so a spike that appears and reverses inside a single minute can be missed. There are no RSI or MACD conditions and no crossover condition; SMA and EMA conditions compare the moving average to a value you enter, not to the price itself. DoneRoad only notifies — it never places, moves or cancels an order.

FAQ

Does the TradingView free plan include technical or indicator alerts?

No. As of November 2026, TradingView's pricing page lists 3 active price alerts for Basic and no technical alerts. Technical alerts on indicators, strategies and drawings start at the Essential plan, with 20.

Can TradingView's free plan send alerts to Telegram?

There is no direct Telegram option. The usual route to Telegram is a webhook, and webhooks start at Essential. On Basic, alerts arrive as site pop-ups, app notifications or email.

Do TradingView alerts expire?

Yes, on most plans. The pricing page lists up to 1 month for Basic and 2 months for Essential and Plus. Premium and Ultimate offer alerts that don't expire.

Is DoneRoad really unlimited?

Yes, during the beta DoneRoad has unlimited price alerts on all 250+ assets, with no credit card. DoneRoad says that if paid plans arrive later, accounts created during the beta keep everything currently listed.

Do I need an exchange account to set a crypto price alert?
No. Alerts are based on market data, not on your positions, so you can watch BTC or ETH without any exchange account — see the no-exchange Bitcoin alert guide.

Will an alert still fire if my phone is off?
Yes. The conditions run on our servers, and Telegram or email messages wait for you. Browser push needs the browser available, so Telegram or email is the safer channel for overnight levels.

Do I need an exchange account to get price alerts?
No. DoneRoad reads public market prices and sends the alert to Telegram, Discord, browser push or email, so you can watch BTC, EUR/USD, gold or a stock without opening or linking any trading account.

Is DoneRoad free, and what is the catch?
DoneRoad is 100 percent free while in beta. The honest limits: one alert watches one asset, prices are checked once a minute, and there is no MACD condition. It notifies you; it does not place orders.

Can I get TradingView-style alerts without an exchange or broker account?
Yes. DoneRoad reads public market data, so you only create a DoneRoad account and choose a channel — Telegram, Discord, browser push or email. See the no-exchange-account guide.

Does DoneRoad support moving average crossover alerts?

Yes. A DoneRoad condition can compare an SMA or EMA to a number you enter, such as “EMA 50 above 4,200”, to the price, or to another moving average. Choose Crosses above or Crosses below and the alert fires once, on the check where one line crosses the other — for example SMA 50 (1D) crossing above SMA 200 (1D), the classic golden cross.

Do I need a broker account to set a moving average alert?

No. MetaTrader indicators need the terminal installed and usually a broker account to get data. DoneRoad runs in the browser, pulls its own market data, and needs no broker account, exchange account or API key. You pick the asset, set the SMA or EMA condition against your number, and choose Telegram, Discord, browser push or email.

Create a free DoneRoad account and set your first uncapped alert