The target price screener: an alert the minute price gets there

The target price screener is your own mark on the price of a specific coin: you set the coin, a number in USDT, and the side price should approach it from, and the alert arrives on the minute of the crossing. The other screeners hunt for movement across the whole market and pick the coin themselves; this one works the other way round and fires only where you asked it to.

In short

You name the coin, the price in USDT, and the side price approaches from — the screener alerts you the minute price goes through that number.
You can keep up to 50 marks: on different coins, or several on one.
There is no tolerance band: the boundary runs through the exact figure you typed. You can separately ask to be warned ahead — by a percentage before the mark, up to 5%.
A mark that fires goes quiet. Re-arm it with the button in the list, or switch repeats on.

What counts as a hit

A hit is a crossing, not proximity. The screener compares two adjacent minutes: a minute ago price sat on one side of your number, now it sits on the other side or exactly on it. There is deliberately no tolerance band — a band added “for symmetry” would send two alerts on every wobble around the mark.

“Upward” counts only a crossing from below. A target, the upper edge of a range.
“Downward” counts only a crossing from above. A stop, the lower edge, a price where you add.
“Any crossing” counts both ways. Such a mark has one identity for both directions: a one-shot mark fires once, not twice.

Price is checked on every exchange enabled in your account settings. The same mark crossed on three venues within one minute is one event, not three messages. When a coin trades as several pairs, the screener takes one of them — the USDT pair first, and otherwise the same pair from run to run.

How the screener helps

A level written down in a notes app works exactly as long as you are looking at the terminal. The target price screener checks your marks against price every minute on every exchange enabled in your account — spot and futures alike — and sends a push or Telegram alert the minute price gets there. Night, work, and another trade do not affect it.

Open the target price screener

How it differs from the price screener and the price levels screener

All three screeners look at price, but they answer different questions. The key difference is who names the price:

Screener	Who sets the price	When the alert arrives
Target price	You — as a number in USDT	Price crossed your mark
Price change	Nobody — you set a percentage, not a price	Any coin on the market covered your percentage over an interval
Price levels	The engine — it finds levels from candles	Price approached a level it found, or broke it

Hence the difference in settings. The price screener has a market filter and floors for turnover and open interest, and they cut the noise of unfamiliar coins. The target price screener has no such filters on purpose: you named the coin and the price by hand, and a filter able to silently drop that very coin would be a trap, not a setting. For the same reason the favourites and blocklist do not apply here.

What the alert contains and what a mark lets you set

A mark is made of four fields, and the alert is made of the facts of the crossing.

The fields of a mark

The coin — the base ticker without the pair: BTC, not BTCUSDT.
The price in USDT. Fractional values go in full: 0.00001234 is a valid number.
The direction: any crossing, upward, or downward.
“Warn within” — the width of the zone around the mark, in percent, from 0 to 5. Zero switches the warning off.

The approach warning is a separate event

It arrives when price enters the zone from outside, not every minute it stays inside. If price also crosses the mark in that same minute, only the crossing is sent: a crossing outranks an approach. A spent warning does not silence the crossing — these are two different events with their own one-shot state.

What is inside the alert

The coin and a counter of alerts on it over the period.
A line per mark crossed in that minute: the price itself and the direction — upward, downward, or an approach.
The price on each exchange where the crossing happened.
The 24-hour price range plus links to the exchange and the chart.

Several marks on one coin come as one message

If price passes both the target and the next mark behind it within a minute, they are listed in a single alert, line after line. This is deliberate: a second message about the same coin in the same minute would be dropped by deduplication, and one of the marks would be lost silently.

Why a mark fires once and then goes quiet

This is not a failure, it is the default. The log of hits is kept per mark, not per coin, so a target that fired does not silence the stop on the same coin.

What happens next depends on the “Repeat the alert” switch:

Repeat off. The mark is one-shot: once it fires, it goes quiet. You named the price yourself, the reminder did its job, and there is nothing to repeat.
Repeat on. The mark lives by the regular alert limit, and the limit is counted per mark too: say, no more than 3 hits on it per hour.

The list shows the state of each mark: armed or fired. A spent one is brought back with the “Re-arm” button — or by editing the price: a changed mark counts as a new one and arms itself. Reordering marks and simply re-saving the settings do not reset the log.

An illustrative example: three marks on one coin

The numbers are for illustration, not taken from the market. The idea: a trade is already open, and you want to hear about its edges without watching the terminal.

How it looks in the settings

Stop: 58,000, downward, warn within 0.5%. Two alerts: at 58,290, saying price approached, and on the crossing itself at 58,000.
Target: 72,000, upward, no warning. One line on the minute of the crossing.
Add: 61,500, downward, repeat on, capped at 2 a day. Price may cross this mark several times — you want every crossing, but no more than two a day.

If you have nothing to hang a mark on

Round numbers are a reasonable start: price lingers around them more often, because that is where other people's orders and stops sit. The ready-made preset in the dashboard computes those levels from the current price at the moment you apply it rather than taking them from a template — the numbers arrive live and stay editable.

What this layout gives you

Direction cuts half the redundancy: the stop mark will not fire when price comes back up to 58,000, and the target will not fire on a fall to 72,000. The stop and the add do not interfere: the log is per mark, and a stop that fired does not silence the add on the same coin. The stop and the target go quiet once spent — you re-arm them with the button before the next trade.

What the target price screener does not do

It does not find the idea for you and does not grade it, it does not place an order on the exchange and does not close a position. It does not know why price came to your number, and it does not tell you what to do next. Reaching a mark is a fact, not a forecast — what to do at that price is decided by your plan.

Target price screener FAQ

How do I set a bitcoin price alert?

Add a mark: the coin BTC (the base ticker, no pair), the price in USDT, and the approach side. The alert arrives as push or Telegram the minute price crosses that number on any exchange enabled in your account.

How many marks can I keep?

Up to 50 — on different coins, or several on one. Marks on the same coin crossed within one minute arrive as a single alert, line after line.

What does the direction on a mark mean?

Which side price has to approach your number from. “Upward” counts only a crossing from below, which suits a target or the upper edge of a range. “Downward” counts only a crossing from above, which suits a stop or a price where you add. “Any crossing” counts both.

Why did a mark fire once and then stop firing?

By default a mark is one-shot: once it fires, it goes quiet. Bring it back with the “Re-arm” button in the list, or by editing the price — a changed mark counts as a new one. If you want repeat hits, switch “Repeat the alert” on.

Will I get an alert if price only approached the mark without crossing it?

Only if you set a zone width in the “Warn within” field: a percentage from 0 to 5, where 0 switches the warning off. The approach alert is then sent once, when price enters the zone from outside, and is not repeated while price stays inside. Without that field, only the crossing itself fires.

Do marks work on spot and on futures?

On both. Price is checked on every exchange enabled in your account settings; this screener deliberately has no market filter and no liquidity floors — you named the coin and the price yourself.

How is the target price screener different from the price levels screener?

You name the target price yourself. The price levels screener needs no prices from you: the engine finds support and resistance from candles and tells you when price approaches or breaks them.

Every form field — the marks, the direction, the warning zone, repeats, and the limit — is explained in “Target price screener settings”. If you would rather not pick a coin and want movement across the whole market, that is the job of the price screener. How price is formed in the first place, and why it differs between exchanges, is in “What is price?”.