📌 Tutorial: precisely activating economic news alarms in TradingView

📌 Tutorial: precisely activating economic news alarms in TradingView

If you only follow important news, you don't need to check the economic calendar every day. By activating alarms for economic events, TradingView sends you a notification before the news is released so you can be prepared for potential market volatility.

Step 1 | Log in to TradingView

* Log in to your account. (Free accounts also support this feature.)

Step 2 | Open the Economic Calendar

* At the bottom of the chart page, click the Calendar tab.
* If you don't see this tab, click the ... (More) icon and then select Calendar.

Step 3 | Select an event
In the calendar, economic events are marked by level of importance:

* 🔴 Red: very high importance (NFP, CPI, FOMC, interest rates)
* 🟠 Orange: high importance
* 🟡 Yellow: medium importance

Find the event you want and click on it.

Step 4 | Activate the alarm
After the event information window opens:

* Click the 🔔 Bell icon next to the news name.
* This opens the notification settings.

Step 5 | Set up the notification
In this section you can specify:

* Notification time:

* 15 minutes before
* 30 minutes before (recommended)
* 1 hour before
* Notification type:

* ✅ Push Notification (mobile notification)
* ✅ Email
* Web Notification if needed

Then click Create or Save.

Step 6 | Check activation
If the alarm is registered successfully:

* The bell icon changes to the active (bold) state.
* The event is also shown in your Alerts list.

### Practical example

Suppose the Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) report is released tomorrow at 16:30 (Iran time).

If you set the alarm to 30 minutes before, the TradingView notification will be sent to you at 16:00 so you can be prepared before market volatility begins.

Important notes

* This feature is only for economic calendar events and is different from price alarms.

* To receive notifications on mobile, the TradingView app must be installed and permission to send notifications must be enabled.

* You can set alarms for several important news releases at the same time.

* It is best to always have alarms for high-importance events such as CPI, PPI, NFP, FOMC, interest rates and speeches by the Federal Reserve chair, so that you are not caught off guard by sudden market moves.