How account-monitoring alerts actually work
Chartping monitors your account on short, repeating snapshots — not tick-by-tick — so alerts are early but best-effort. Here’s what that honestly means.
Chartping watches your account on a short, repeating snapshot — it reads your equity, margin and positions every interval and checks them against the limits you set. It is near-real-time, not a tick-by-tick feed, and alerts are best-effort. We’re deliberately clear about this, because a monitor you understand is worth more than one you over-trust.
What a snapshot is
Every interval, the agent (for MetaTrader) or the exchange connection (for API accounts) reads your current account state and sends it over an encrypted link. Chartping compares that snapshot to your daily-loss, drawdown-from-peak and margin-level thresholds and decides whether to warn you. Nothing is stored that could place a trade; it only reads.
Why not tick-by-tick?
A true tick feed for every account across every broker and exchange would be heavier, more fragile, and — for account-level risk rules that move over seconds and minutes, not microseconds — mostly unnecessary. Snapshots are built to catch the kinds of moves that put accounts at risk — a daily-loss line crossed on a news candle, a drawdown floor approached over a bad hour — while staying reliable across a dozen different platforms. They’re best-effort, not a guarantee that every move is caught the instant it happens.
What “best-effort” honestly means
Best-effort means an alert can be delayed — by your connectivity, by market conditions, or by the channel you chose (a push, an SMS, a voice call, a webhook). We don’t promise a service level, and we don’t pretend an alert is instant. What we do promise to tell you is when we’ve stopped watching at all.
The safeguard: loud silence
If your terminal closes, your machine sleeps, or the connection drops, Chartping sends a fail-loud “monitoring stopped” alert — and a “monitoring resumed” notice when coverage returns. Losing visibility is treated as its own risk event, because it is.
That honesty is the whole point of how Chartping works: it watches, it warns early, and it tells you when it can’t. It never trades, and it’s read-only by design. Alerts are best-effort; the decisions stay yours.
Frequently asked
Is Chartping monitoring real-time?
Not tick-by-tick. Chartping reads your account on a short, repeating interval and evaluates your rules against each snapshot. It’s near-real-time, not a live tick feed — a deliberate, honest design.
Can an alert be delayed or missed?
Yes — alerts are best-effort and can be delayed by connectivity, market conditions or the channel you route them to. That’s why a fail-loud “monitoring stopped” alert fires if the connection drops, so silence is never mistaken for “all clear”.
Does monitoring guarantee I won’t breach a limit?
No. Chartping is a monitoring and alerting tool — it warns you as you approach the limits you set, but it doesn’t place trades and doesn’t guarantee any outcome.