Overview

What Threshold Alerts are

Threshold Alerts help users monitor when a market, price, spread, or opportunity crosses a specific level.

Instead of manually checking the same market over and over, you can set an alert and let Lurk notify you when the condition is met.

What Threshold Alerts are for

Use Threshold Alerts when you want to know when:

• a market price rises above a certain level
• a market price falls below a certain level
• an arb spread reaches a target percentage
• an opportunity becomes interesting enough to review
• a market moves into your preferred entry range
• a watched signal crosses your attention threshold

Threshold Alerts are designed for monitoring, not prediction.

How they work

A Threshold Alert is based on a condition.

The basic structure is:

Notify me when [thing being watched] [crosses condition] [threshold].

Examples:

Notify me when this market goes above 65%.

Notify me when this contract drops below 40%.

Notify me when this arb spread reaches 3%.

Notify me when this opportunity falls back under 2%.

When the condition is met, Lurk may send or display an alert depending on your account settings and available notification options.

Common alert types

Price alerts

Price alerts track a specific market or contract price.

Examples:

Above 70%
Below 35%
Moves by 10%
Returns to 50%

Spread alerts

Spread alerts track the difference between related markets or outcomes.

Examples:

Spread above 2%
Spread above 5%
Spread below 1%

Opportunity alerts

Opportunity alerts track whether a surfaced opportunity becomes more or less attractive.

Examples:

Opportunity reaches target spread
Opportunity drops below minimum spread
Opportunity becomes active again

Creating a Threshold Alert

To create a Threshold Alert:

1. Open the market, contract, spread, or opportunity you want to monitor.
2. Select the alert option.
3. Choose the condition.
4. Enter the threshold.
5. Save the alert.

Once saved, Lurk will monitor the condition while the alert is active.

Editing an alert

If your target changes, you can edit the alert instead of creating a new one.

You may be able to update:

• the threshold
• the direction
• the watched market or opportunity
• notification preferences
• whether the alert is active or paused

Pausing or deleting an alert

Pause an alert when you may want to use it again later.

Delete an alert when you no longer need it.

Paused alerts will not notify you until they are resumed.

Deleted alerts are removed from your account.

Best practices

Use Threshold Alerts for levels that actually matter to your workflow.

Good alerts are specific:

Alert me if the spread goes above 3%.

Weak alerts are vague:

Alert me if something interesting happens.

Set alerts around levels where you would take action, review a market, or update your thesis.

Avoid creating too many alerts at once. Too many notifications can turn useful monitoring into noise.

Common issues

“I did not receive an alert.”

The threshold may not have been reached, notifications may be disabled, or the alert may be paused.

Check the alert status and notification settings.

“The market crossed my level, but I still did not get notified.”

The alert may depend on Lurk’s latest available data. If the market moved briefly between updates, the alert may not have triggered.

“I received an alert after the price already moved.”

Markets can move quickly. Alerts are meant to notify you when Lurk detects the condition, not guarantee instant execution timing.

“My alert keeps triggering.”

The market may be moving back and forth around your threshold.

Consider adjusting the threshold or deleting the alert if it no longer provides useful signal.

“My alert is showing stale data.”

Refresh the page. If the issue continues, contact support with the alert, market, and screenshots if available.

Important note

Threshold Alerts are monitoring tools.

They do not guarantee execution, price availability, or trading outcomes. Use them to reduce manual checking and focus your attention when a market or opportunity reaches a level you care about.