Recurring Stock Percentage Alerts (Without Setting Price Targets)
If you've tried setting stock price alerts before, you've probably run into the same problem: you set a target, the stock moves past it, and now your alert is useless. You either delete it and set a new one, or you stop bothering entirely.
There's a better model.
The problem with fixed price targets
Most brokerage apps and financial tools alert you when a stock crosses a specific price — say, when AAPL hits $200. This sounds useful until you realize:
- The stock moves past $200, and now you need a new alert
- You're maintaining a list of targets that constantly go stale
- You end up with alerts for prices the stock left behind weeks ago
And more fundamentally: a specific price doesn't tell you whether something significant happened. A stock sitting at $200 is very different from a stock that just dropped to $200 from $240.
What actually matters: the size of the move
What you want to know is whether a stock made a big move today — regardless of where it's currently trading.
That's what percentage-based alerts do:
- Notify me when TSLA moves more than 5% in a day
- Notify me when NVDA drops more than 6%
- Notify me when AMD jumps more than 8%
These alerts are self-calibrating. They don't go stale. Every trading day, the system checks whether the stock moved enough to be worth your attention — and if it did, you hear about it. If it didn't, you hear nothing.
No maintenance. No list of price targets to update.
Recurring means every time it happens
Another thing fixed price targets get wrong: they're usually one-shot. You get alerted once, and the alert is consumed.
Recurring percentage alerts work differently. Every day the market is open, the check runs fresh. If a stock drops 7% on Monday, you get an alert. If it drops another 6% on Thursday, you get another one. Each trading day is evaluated independently.
This is the model that actually works in the background without you touching anything.
Setting different thresholds for drops vs. gains
Not all moves are equally interesting in both directions. You might want to know about any drop above 4% on a stock you hold, but only care about gains above 10% on something you're watching. Or the opposite.
With Stocks Notify, you set the alert threshold for gains and drops separately, per ticker. So you can say: alert me if this drops more than 4%, but only if it rises more than 9%. That's a level of control that most tools don't offer.
How to set it up
- Add your tickers — stocks you hold, stocks you're watching, or both. You don't have to own them to track them.
- Set thresholds — separately for gains and drops, per ticker (default is 5% each)
- Connect Telegram — where your alerts are delivered
- Done — the system checks prices at set times during the trading day and notifies you when something crosses your line
Each stock alerts at most once per day, so you won't get spammed about the same move. And you can turn individual market window checks on or off if you only want alerts at certain times.
What an alert looks like
TSLA moved -6.1% today (now $241.80)
That's it. Ticker, move size, current price. Arrives in Telegram at a predictable time. No app to open, no feed to scroll.
Fixed price targets are a tool for a specific moment. Recurring percentage alerts are a system that runs quietly in the background and taps you on the shoulder when something worth knowing actually happens.