HOW TO GET INSTANT AND WIRELESS ALERTS

GET YOUR STOCK MARKET ALERTS INSTANTLY AND SAVE YOURSELF $$$: The alerts we send out by e-mail are really designed to provide you with commentary that is not time-sensitive and back-up hard copies of instant alerts we issue during the day.

To realize the full value and potential of Trader-Alert, you'll want to receive our alerts as quickly as possible. We deliver them to you with JUST a few seconds of delay directly to your desktop computer and/or to your wireless device (digital cell phones; or a pager with text messaging). A wireless device frees you from having to be tied to your computer all day.

We encourage you to request all three methods of delivery (at no extra cost): Instant Message Alerts, wireless alerts and e-mail alerts.


Alerts delivered to your desktop within seconds...

You can get alerts sent to ICQ (an instant message software program) within seconds of when they are actually issued -- so long as you are at your computer during market hours.

It's very simple to get alerts via ICQ:
  1. Download and install the free ICQ software here; we do not provide tech support for setting up ICQ. You can get help here: http://web.icq.com/help/

  2. When you register ICQ you are assigned a unique ICQ ID# that is a series of numbers like 987654 or 174571906.Drop a note to us here requesting ICQ Alerts and let us know what you ICQ ID# is. That's all there is to it!

 


Wireless Alerts Mean More Freedom

Did you know that most wireless devices have an address associated with it that functions just like an email address? You can receive text messages directed to that device Here are samples of what these addressess look like for various wireless cell phone and pager service providers; the first set of numbers are usually your cell phone number or pager number:
  • Airtouch pagers: 8054814358@alphapage.airtouch.com
  • Airtouch cellular: 8054814358@airtouch.net
  • Arch Comm: : 8054814358@page.arch.com
  • AT&T: 8054814358@mobile.att.net
  • Cell One: 8054814358@mobile.att.net
  • Cingular: 8054814358@imcingular.com OR
  • Cingular: 8054814358@mycingular.com
  • MetroCall: 8054814358@metrocall.com
  • Nextel: 7035551234@messaging.nextel.com
  • Pagemart Paging: 4814358@pagemart.net
  • SkyTel Paging: : 4814358@skytel.com
  • SprintPCS: 8054814358@messaging.sprintpcs.com
  • Verizon: 8054814358@vtext.com
  1. Ask your wireless provider to help you identify your device's address (in the above format) and then have them send you a text message to test it out and see if it's working, then email it to us here.
  2. Leave your cell phone or pager ON during market hours and monitor our buy and sell alerts. You may need to consult your cell phone manual to make sure it's serttings will accomodate incoming text messages.

All wireless devices are are not digital; older devices are analog

You need to have a DIGITAL pager or cell phone. An analog pager or cell phone cannot receive text messages. If you do not have a digital device you can normally upgrade to one. If you want to make profits in the stock market you need to have the proper tools at hand.

AMake sure your text messaging options are enabled?

Make sure your device is enable to recevie text messages. Many wirelesss accounts for digital phones are already enabled to receive what are called “alpha-numeric text messages” or "text messages” or "e-mail text messages," but some are not. Some service providers charge a small fee such as $2.95 per 100 messages, etc. 100 messages per month should be sufficent to receive all Trader-Alert buy-sell signals in any given month..

We send the "action alerts," the brief buy and sell alerts to ICQ, to wireless devices and to your e-mail account. We do not send the more text-intensive general market comments to wireless devices because they are not time-sensitive; but thes messages are automatically sent to your e-mail address anyway.

What if I don't have a wireless service?

You can always use ICQ for free. but Most wireless service providers offer an inexpensive or free digital pager or digital phone with text messaging capability included for $12-25 a month; some charge an add-on service fee that allows 100-500 text messages for around $3-5 per month. It is unlikely that we will ever issue over 100 text messages for buys and sells in a given month.