alerts
Price alerts
Drag-on-chart alerts that fire when price crosses, touches, or holds at a level.
Price alerts are the simplest kind. Drag a horizontal line at the level you care about and Spectra fires when price interacts with it.
Creating one
Right-click any chart price → Create alert. Or drag the price-tag
handle on the right axis and drop it on the line you want to watch.
Trigger → cross above | cross below | touch | hold N seconds
Cooldown → fire once | re-arm after N bars
Channel → push | email | webhook | desktop notification
hold N seconds is useful for filtering noisy crosses on lower
timeframes — the alert only fires if price stays above (or below) the
level for the full window.
Persistence
Alerts persist with the workspace. Move to a different chart and the line stays attached to the symbol. Cloud sync (Pro) carries them across devices.
Pro vs Free
Free tier alerts evaluate on the desktop only. If your laptop is asleep, they don't fire. Pro tier mirrors active alerts to the cloud worker so they fire 24/7 — see Script alerts for the same mechanism applied to DSL conditions.
Limits
Free: 5 active alerts per account. Pro: 50. Enterprise: unlimited. Caps are enforced server-side via Postgres triggers — you can't bypass them on the client.