LOL arun you've been here forever, you should already know that

curranjohn - again the trade alerts are NOT sent out by Steve and myself, they are not buy and sell signals. For the trade ideas, we try and set alarm prices near a breakpoint such as a trendline or resistance, or support. Just like you have quote list in your broker or trading platform where you place a list of stocks that you are monitoring and you set alarm prices where you want to be alerted. That's all they are is alarms set near prices to alert you to have a look at it. When you se those, don't just buy or sell, look at the chart and see if it makes sense, such as is the volume pumping, how's the price action etc. You don't just see the alarm and buy - you see the alarm and it alerts you to have a look

again these are no substitute for you actually setting your own alerts/alarms on your watchlist as those are real time

see this URL and read
https://breakpointtrades.com/faq/

What are the Pop-Up Alarms in the Trading Community?

Below is an answer that was posted on the Trading Community by Matt.  You can access the direct post on the Trading Community using the Search feature.

Below is an image from the 'Trading Community' Blog from Feb 1st showing a bunch of pop out alarms for our trade ideas from that day.

Apparently there is some confusion as to how these alarms work and why they go off at certain prices, therefore let me to to clarify how it works.  First off Steve and I do not manually send these alerts out, they are preset ahead of time near trendline resistance or breakpoint areas.   We display if we have an alarm set for a Trade Idea as well as what levels we have set on the Watch List page. These alerts work just like the alarms that you can set in your brokerage account.  Also these alarms are NOT buy and sell signals, they are simply alarms to put you on alert you that a breakpoint is approaching and to get your attention.  You should not automatically buy or short a stock based on an alarm, it's simply to alert you that the stock is nearing a breakpoint and to put you on attention to look at it. The alarms work just like the alarms work that you can set in your brokerage account.

The alarms are always set early, below the breakpoint resistance for longs, so that you have time to look at them and react and decide if the stock looks ready to breakout or not, does it have good volume, does it fit your criteria or not.  Again the alarms are not intended for you to just automatically buy or short a stock, it's to alert you to have a look at it, and works just like alarms that you can set in your own brokerage account.

For example, let's say that we have a stock with an breakpoint resistance at 78.3 (see WFM chart below as an example), I might set an alarm to go off at 78.23 or 5 - 10 cents below the resistance.

Also as you know, we often advocate buying the long ideas inside the pattern when there is a good reason to do so, such as the stock has pulled back to some logical support and thus your stop can be really tight, vs waiting for the stock to breakout and you have a higher risk.  The reason I bring this up is because we cannot set alerts for support areas for Longs, we can only set alerts near resistance for Longs, therefore this is why you MUST do your home work ahead of time and NOT totally rely on these alerts.

The most successful way to play our trade ideas is to do some homework on your own, spend 15 min at night or in the morning before the market opens, write some notes down in your trading journal/notebook, such as which ones are your favorites and add notes about support/resistance, and volume.  That way when an alarm or alarms go off intra day, when you see it you are already prepared and you know what the pattern is, and if you like the stock or not!  Basically just like in school, do your homework and study, and you will do well on the tests.  Trading is the same way, if you don't do any homework and watch TV all night, and then come in the market every day unprepared, then when alerts go off, you are like a deer in the headlights.

Steve and I spend all day in here on the blog and these nightly newsletters take us 3 - 4 hrs a night, so we put in a LONG day, we are doing all the hard work for you, all we ask is that you spend 10 - 15 min a day to prepare, and you will see this returned 10 fold back to your accounts!