A watchlist plus an alert is what the platform counts as a fully active account, and the alert is the bigger shift: it turns Vulcan from something you check into something that checks on you. That is the habit that predicts whether you are still here in a month.
An alert is a rule you write once: if this market crosses this price, or meets this condition, notify me. The anxious habit of checking is replaced by the calm one of waiting to be told.
Beginner alerts should be wide, not tight. Set a level around today's price that ordinary daily movement will not reach. A hair trigger gives you noise and teaches you to ignore your own alerts; a wide one fires rarely and means it.
One alert on one market is enough to start. You can always add another. You cannot easily unlearn ignoring them.
Open Alerts on the desk and press the plus to watch a price level on your home base market.
> open Alerts on the desk →Set the level far enough from today's price that a normal day will not reach it, in the direction you are watching for.
> still on AlertsConfirm how the alert will reach you, so you know it is live.
> still on AlertsNo quiz. One live alert on a watchlist market is the answer.