To help keep track of what your bots are doing, you can set up custom notifications. These notifications can be for all bots, a specific brokerage account, or just an individual bot. Each notification will send at a designated time (such as when a closing order fills or the bot's profit is above a certain level), and you can also receive these notifications in multiple ways - Email, text message, push notification, Discord, or simply inside of your Whispertrades account.

To get started with bot notifications, visit your Communication page.

Once on the communication page, click "Add Notification" to set up a new notification.

First, you'll select the type of notification. This determines when the notification will send.

When a new order that is placed

When a new order is filled

When you select this notification, you can narrow it down to order type as well: Opening Order, Closing Order, Closing Order (Profit), Closing Order (Loss), Closing Order (Abandoned Leg). Or, if you don't want just one order type, you can just notify for all order fills.

When an existing standing profit order is canceled

Sent when a position goes in-the-money by a certain percentage which you define. This notification is automatically throttled to once per every 5 minutes.

Sent when a position reaches a certain loss percentage which you define. This notification is automatically throttled to once per every 5 minutes.

Sent when a position reaches a certain profit percentage which you define. This notification is automatically throttled to once per every 5 minutes.

Sent when a position is a certain number of days to expiration which you define.

Sent when a position reaches a certain delta which you define. This notification is automatically throttled to once per every 5 minutes.

Sent when a position is held through expiration

By default, Whispertrades will send you emails when it anticipates that your account will run out of funds 14, 7, and 3 days in advance. For more on that, you can reference our page on Pricing

If you would prefer to set up your own, custom notification for a low balance, you can do that here. Simply select "WT Low Balance" for the notification type, enter the balance at which you'd like to be notified, and we'll send a notification when your Whispertrades account reaches that balance. If you have a custom notification set for low balance, you will no longer receive the standard 14, 7, and 3 day warnings that Whispertrades sends.

After you select the Notification Type, you'll then specify where the notification should go: Email, SMS, Website, Pushover, or Discord. You can send a notification to just one location, or you can send a notification to multiple locations.

This will go to the email address that you've assigned to your Whispertrades account

This will send a text message to the phone number assigned to your Whispertrades accout. If you have not yet entered your phone number, you can do so from your Settings page.

You can opt out of SMS messages by either removing the notifications from Whispertrades or by texting "STOP" to the number that sends notifications. If you opt out using a "STOP" response, you will need to text “START” back to the number that sends notifications.

Example SMS notification:

This will place a notification in a dropdown menu at the top of your Whispertrades account online. When you have notifications to read, you'll see a bell icon at the top right of all of your account pages:



Click on the bell icon to view your notifications:

If there is not bell icon at the top of your account, then you have no notifications to view.

Pushover.net is a third-party app compatible with both Apple and Android devices that will allow you to receive push notifications on your phone from Whispertrades. To use Pushover, you need to install the app on your phone and then place your Pushover User Token (from your Pushover account) into your Whispertrades settings.

Pushover may require payment to install or use the app. As of this writing (February 2024), Pushover offers a 30-day free trial, but to continue use after your trial, you will need to make a one-time payment of $4.99 to Pushover. This will grant lifetime access to the app.

Example Pushover notification:

Discord, a popular online chat service, offers external messages received via webhook. To set these up, you'll need a Discord server where you have administration rights. Follow Discord's instructions on creating a webhook.

Once you create your Discord webhook, copy the webhook URL that Discord provides. You'll need that webhook to provide when setting up your Whispertrades notification.

Example Discord notification:

Notifications can become overwhelming if you have a lot of bot activity. If you'd like to set a maximum number of notifications per day or per hour, you can do that at the bottom of the notification form. These limits are per notification that you configure, so you can have different limits for different bots or notifications.

Due to exchange market data restrictions, the underlying price included with SPX notifications is not the actual index price but is instead derived from the SPY ETF. Internally, bots use the actual index price for operation, but the notification price is derived from SPY.