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Get your alerts on your phone

No app store, no download. TheDesperateTrader installs straight from your browser and pushes alerts to your lock screen, even when the tab is closed. Here is the whole setup, per device.

Works on iPhone & Android Free, nothing to install from a store Alerts arrive with the tab closed

Turn on push alerts

Pick your phone. The steps differ, so choose the right tab.

iPhone needs one extra step: Apple only allows push notifications after you add the site to your Home Screen. It takes 20 seconds and you do it once. Requires iOS 16.4 or later and Safari.

1

Open the site in Safari

Go to thedesperatetrader.com in Safari. This part only works in Safari, not Chrome, on iPhone.

2

Add it to your Home Screen

Tap the Share button, scroll down, and tap Add to Home Screen, then Add.

3

Open the app from your Home Screen

Tap the new TheDesperateTrader icon on your Home Screen. Notifications only work from this installed app, not from the Safari tab.

4

Tap the bell, then Enable alerts

Tap the bell at the top right, choose Enable alerts, and tap Allow when your phone asks. That is it, you are on.

Visual walkthrough
1Tap Share, then Add to Home Screen
2Confirm with Add
3Open the app, tap the bell, Enable alerts, Allow

Choose what gets pushed

Turning alerts on is half of it. Now tell us which alerts should hit your phone.

Price alertsPushed

Set a target price on any stock (“tell me if NVDA hits $180”). When it triggers, it lands on your phone. Set them from any chart or your watchlist.

Watchlist alertsPushed

Add stocks to your watchlist and we push you when one of them fires a scanner alert, a volume spike, a big move, or a halt.

Good to know: push is tied to the alerts you choose, your price targets and your watchlist, not the entire firehose. That keeps your phone useful instead of buzzing every few seconds. The full live feed still streams on the /alerts page whenever you open it.

Prefer email? Get the Morning Brief

One clean digest instead of live pings.

Every market morning: the top play and why, the biggest pre-market gappers with their catalysts, who reports before the open, plus movers on your own watchlist. Flip it on from the same bell menu, under “Daily brief.” Off by default, one tap to unsubscribe.

Not getting alerts?

The three things that trip people up, and the fix for each.

You are almost certainly still in the Safari tab. iPhone push only works from the installed app, so add it to your Home Screen (Share → Add to Home Screen) and open it from that icon, then try the bell again.

Also check you are on iOS 16.4 or later. Older versions cannot do web push at all.

Set it up in the next two minutes

Open the site on your phone, tap the bell, and pick a stock to watch. You will get your first alert on the next move.

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