How many times do you come across a stock that looks good to you, but not exactly at the current price? You’d like to keep the stock in your watchlist, but you are only interested in trading it when, say, it reaches a new high or low, or when it reaches a certain price threshold. There are many stocks in this situation for most investors. How many stocks in your watchlist do you actually have a position in? Unless you have a very large amount of capital, you probably have positions in just a portion of the stocks on your radar. You’re probably waiting for some price threshold to be met for the remaining stocks.

At StockTickr, we’d like to save time for investors - free your time to do other things with your life rather than wait for stocks to reach a certain threshold.

That is why we created StockTickr Alerts! Read on for the details.

StockTickr is a free watchlist tracker with a twist: you can view other users’ watchlists, add other users to a friends list to track their picks, categorize your picks using tags, and more. (Yep, it’s free. Signup here.)

For each stock you add to StockTickr, you have the option of setting an alert to be notified via email when your threshold is met (perhaps a new 52 week high or low, for example). Then you can go on about your business and concentrate on the stocks that you’d like to trade now, rather than try to keep track of your “back burner” stocks in your head where you’re likely to forget about them.

StockTickr Alerts are Shared Across Users

Best of all, StockTickr Alerts are shared across the whole site! On any entry where you see this icon: , that is an entry where someone has entered an alert. You can hover your mouse over the icon to view the details of the alert and you can even click it to copy the alert for that stock into your own watchlist. Go ahead and click the icon above to import an alert for when GOOG reaches a new 52 week high (free signup required).

To view only entries with alerts on them, click on the Alerts link at the top of most any page in StockTickr, or click this link.

Access your Recently Triggered Alerts

When you receive an alert via email, you’ll see the stock that triggered the alert along with the price. You’ll also see links to your recently triggered alerts page.

StockTickr Pro Users Get More

StockTickr Pro users (free trial, sign up here) get access to recently fired alerts across all of StockTickr, not just their own. What’s just popped up on other users’ radars? With StockTickr Pro, you’ll know.

Anatomy of the StockTickr Alert

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