Real-time alerts: when your bot acts, you know

A bot that runs while you sleep is only reassuring if you can trust it to tell you what it did. Autonomy shouldn't mean silence. That's the whole idea behind Soar's real-time alerts: the moment your bot opens a position, closes one, steps in to protect a trade, or runs into trouble, a push notification lands on your phone. You stay informed without watching charts — and without the low-grade dread of wondering what's happening in the background.

Most people don't want a second job babysitting an autonomous system. They want to hand off the tedious, always-on part — and still feel in the loop. Alerts are how Soar closes that gap. Here's how they work, what they cover, and why you're the one who decides which ones matter.

Autonomy without anxiety

The tension in any automated trading tool is trust. You delegate the moment-to-moment work to software, but you're still the person whose account it's touching. If the bot goes quiet for hours, that quiet gets loud in your head. Did it act? Did something break? Is a position still open that shouldn't be?

Real-time alerts turn that uncertainty into a steady signal. Instead of pulling up the app on a hunch, you get a clear message the instant something meaningful happens. The bot keeps running around the clock; you keep living your life. When it's worth your attention, you'll know — and only then.

A 24/7 bot should never mean flying blind. When it acts, you know.

The alerts you can get

Soar sends push notifications across the events that actually matter in a trading day. You'll see them the moment they happen, not in a digest hours later:

• Trade opened. Your bot filled a new position — you get told the instant it happens, so there are no surprises when you next open the app.

• Trade closed. A position wrapped up. The alert marks the moment it exited, giving you a clean, running record of your bot's activity.

• Protective exit. If your bot steps in to protect a position — closing to respect the risk rules you set — you're notified right away. This is the alert that tells you the guardrails are doing their job.

• Session and market events. Broader signals tied to trading sessions and market conditions, so you have context around what your bot is navigating.

• Bot-health warnings. If your bot needs attention — for example, if it disconnects — Soar flags it so you can step in. These are prioritized above the rest because a bot that can't run is a bot that can't protect you.

That last category is the one people underrate. A trade alert is nice to know. A health alert is need to know. If your bot loses its connection, that's not a background detail — it's the difference between a system that's watching your positions and one that's gone dark. Soar treats it that way and pushes it to the front of the line.

You choose what reaches you

Alerts are only useful if they're not noise. Some traders want to feel every fill; others only care about closes and anything that needs a decision. Soar puts that choice in your hands — you pick which alerts you receive, so your phone tells you what you actually want to hear and stays quiet about the rest.

The goal isn't to bombard you. It's to give you exactly the level of visibility you're comfortable with. Want a heads-up on every open and close? Turn it on. Prefer to only hear about protective exits and health warnings? That works too. The system adapts to how closely you want to watch — from near-invisible to fully looped-in.

How this fits the bigger picture

Alerts are one half of a trustworthy autonomous system. The other half is that your bot only ever has permission to trade — never to move your money. Whether you self-host, where your broker API keys live only on your own infrastructure and never touch Soar's servers, or use Soar-managed hosting, where keys are stored encrypted and scoped to trade-only with your consent, the boundary is the same: Soar can place and close trades on your behalf, and it can never withdraw or move your funds. Full stop.

Put those two things together — trade-only access plus real-time visibility — and you get the actual promise of an autonomous bot: it does the relentless, around-the-clock work, and you keep a clear window into everything it does. You're not handing over control. You're delegating the effort and keeping the awareness.

You can turn alerts on and tune them from within the app, pair them with a strategy from the strategy pages, and read up on the details in the help center. If you want a broader read on what the engine is watching each day, the daily brief is a good habit — and more on how Soar works lives on the blog.

A bot that runs 24/7 is powerful. A bot that runs 24/7 and keeps you in the loop is something you can actually rely on. Real-time alerts are how Soar makes the second kind — so the machine handles the hours, and you never have to wonder what it's up to.

Informational and educational content only. Not investment advice. Trading involves risk, including loss of capital.