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Pushover is a paid mobile app (one-time purchase, around $5 after a free 30-day trial) that delivers reliable, low-latency push notifications to iOS and Android. Because it operates independently of email and SMS, alerts arrive fast and with consistent priority — making it a solid choice for time-sensitive trading signals. Once you link your Pushover account to StratAlerts, in-force setup alerts and simultaneous break alerts are pushed to your device as they trigger, without you needing to have StratAlerts open.
Pro subscriptions include 250 messages/mo. Unused credits do not roll over. Additional message packs can be purchased for $5 per 500 messages, and they never expire.
Telegram alerts are completely free and can be used instead of Pushover.
Push notifications require the Founders Plan. Basic plan subscribers do not have access to alert delivery through Pushover or Telegram. Compare plans →

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What you need

  • A Pushover account at pushover.net
  • The Pushover app installed on your iOS or Android device
  • An active StratAlerts Founders Plan subscription

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Setup

1

Create your Pushover account and install the app

Sign up at pushover.net if you don’t have an account. Then install the Pushover app from the App Store or Google Play and log in with the same credentials.
2

Copy your User Key

Log in to pushover.net on the web. Your User Key is displayed on the main dashboard — it’s a 30-character string at the top of the page. Copy it.
3

Enter your User Key in StratAlerts

In StratAlerts, open Alerts → Settings and paste your User Key into the Pushover User Key field. Save the settings. StratAlerts will send a test notification to confirm the connection.
4

Configure your alert groups

Under Alerts → Settings, create or edit an alert group with the symbols, timeframes, and optionally specific setups you want to receive. If you leave the Setup selector on All, every matching setup triggers a notification. To narrow delivery, select specific setups like 1-2, 3-2, or 2d-green (failed) from the dropdown.
The test notification confirms that your User Key is valid and the connection is live. If it doesn’t arrive within 30 seconds, double-check that you copied the User Key from your Pushover dashboard, not an app token.

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Market selection

Each delivery method has its own market filter that controls which asset classes can trigger alerts. Under Alerts → Settings → Pushover, you will see checkboxes for:
  • Stocks — equities alerts (e.g., SPY, AAPL)
  • Futures — futures alerts (e.g., NQ=F, ES=F)
  • Crypto — cryptocurrency alerts (e.g., BTC-USD)
Check the markets you want to receive on this channel and save. Only alerts for enabled markets are delivered — alerts for unchecked markets are silently filtered out.
Sim Break Alerts scan futures instruments. If you want to receive Sim Break alerts through Pushover, make sure Futures is enabled here.

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What alerts you receive

Once connected, Pushover delivers two types of alerts:

In-force alerts

Triggered when a setup goes in-force — meaning price has broken the trigger level and the trade is live. Each alert includes the symbol, timeframe, setup type, and direction.

Simultaneous break alerts

Triggered when multiple instruments break together in the same direction within a short window, signaling a potentially broader move.

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Alert message format

Each Pushover notification includes:
  • Symbol — the ticker (e.g., SPY, NQ=F, BTC-USD)
  • Timeframe — the candle timeframe that triggered (e.g., Daily, Weekly, 60m)
  • Setup — the candle scenario and direction (e.g., 2U, 2D, 1-2U)
  • Direction — Up or Down
A typical alert looks like:
example alert
SPY — Daily — 2U — Up
In-force at 561.40
Tapping a setup alert opens the Setups Table with the symbol prefiltered and all timeframes visible, so you can review the full setup context immediately.

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Tips

In the Pushover app, you can configure alerts from StratAlerts to use high-priority delivery, which bypasses Do Not Disturb and quiet hours. This is useful during the regular trading session (9:30 AM – 4:00 PM ET) when you need every alert to cut through.Open Pushover → Settings → Sounds → find the StratAlerts notification source and set it to high priority.
Pushover groups notifications by app. If you use Pushover for other services, tap the StratAlerts group on the notification screen to isolate your trading alerts from unrelated messages.
On iOS, make sure Pushover has background app refresh enabled and notifications are allowed from Settings → Notifications → Pushover. On Android, exclude Pushover from battery optimization to prevent the OS from delaying delivery.

Telegram notifications

Set up Telegram as an alternative or complementary notification channel.

Alerts settings

Learn how to filter which setups and timeframes trigger push notifications.