Swing alerts
Trade the range: get told whenever the market swings harder than normal.
What it is
Many assets spend most of their time moving sideways inside a range, swinging a few percent up and down. Swing traders try to buy near the bottom of the range and reduce near the top, over and over, without needing a big trend at all.
Why people use it
You do not need a bull market to be active. The repeated small moves are the opportunity. A percent-move alert is the natural tool: it tells you whenever the market swings harder than normal, in either direction, without you watching the chart.
Worked example. A coin has bounced between $0.90 and $1.10 for two months. You set a 24h move > 5% alert. When the email says it dropped 6% to $0.92, you check: still inside the range, near the bottom, no bad news. That is the pattern the range trader waits for. Near $1.08 the same alert fires in the other direction and you consider taking profit.
What to watch out for
- Ranges eventually break. A swing trader who keeps "buying the bottom of the range" during a real breakdown gets run over. Always pair this with a stop-loss rule (next topic).
- Set the threshold to the asset's own personality: 5% is a big day for Apple and background noise for a small coin.
- Frequent trading means frequent fees. Count them, because they quietly eat range profits.
Run it with CryptoAlertly
- On any asset, use the Swing ±5% preset, or set your own 24h move > X% threshold that matches the asset's normal volatility.
- When the alert fires, you know the market moved unusually hard today. Check which side of its range the asset sits on before acting.
- The alert re-arms automatically once the move cools down, so you are told about each new swing, not spammed about the same one.
- Practice reading swings in the simulator with the "Sideways" market mood.
Turn this into real alerts
Free plan, no card needed. Set a price target and we email you when it is crossed.