Sound alerts versus visual alerts during a scalping session

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Alerts only help if they're noticed. During a busy session, a small pop-up in the corner of a screen is easy to miss, and a loud beep every few seconds becomes background noise.

The best setups assign different signals to different meanings. A distinct sound for a spread spike, another for a fill, another for a news event approaching. After a few days, the brain starts to link each tone with an action, and the reaction becomes automatic.

Overuse ruins it. Too many alerts lead to alert fatigue, where all of them are ignored. A short list of critical conditions works better than a long list of interesting ones.

Visual cues can complement sound. A chart background that changes colour when the spread exceeds a limit gets noticed even without audio. For trading in a shared space, or at night, this may be the only option.

Reviewing alert settings every few weeks and removing the ones that haven't been useful keeps the system sharp.

Which alerts do you rely on most, and which ones turned out to be noise?