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Notify & Sound

Decide, for each thing that can happen, whether you see it, hear it, or get it on your phone — so the important ones reach you and the rest stay quiet.

ApeX Trading Console can tell you about each event — a position opened, a stop hit, break-even moved, a price alert, news coming — in four ways: a card on the chart, a push to your phone’s MetaTrader app, a Telegram message, and a sound. In Notify & Sound you switch each channel on or off per event and pick the sound, so a stop-loss hit can reach your phone while a trailing step only makes a small tick.

Opening it

On the panel's Settings tab, press Setup under Notify & Sound.

Settings tab of ApeX Trading Console on MT5 — default RR and stop, chart and bar options, and Setup buttons for Notify and Sound, sessions, theme, licence, hotkeys, watermark and screenshots
The Settings tab — Notify & Sound is in the last group.

The four channels

Column What you get
ScreenA card on the chart with the event, symbol, zone and details. It fades on its own.
MobilePushed to your phone’s MetaTrader app. Needs a one-time setup, below.
TelegramA message to your Telegram chat, once Telegram is set up.
SoundOne of MetaTrader's built-in sounds, or none. Choosing one plays it, so you can tell them apart.

If the console runs on several charts, the sound and the phone notification go out once, not once per chart.

Which events can you be told about?

  • Orders — position opened, pending filled, stop loss, take profit, partial take profit and stop loss, break-even, trailing, pending expired.
  • System — emergency stop, OCO triggered, anything that failed, price alerts and news.
  • Objects — price touching a trend line, rectangle or horizontal line you drew.
  • Time — a candle closing.
  • Prop Guard — a position with no stop at the broker, and a trade that was blocked.
  • Trade Engine — messages from the console's automatic trading engine.
  • Indicators · Setup — events from ApeX indicators on the same chart, if you use them.
  • Telegram — a signal sent to your channel, or one that could not be sent.
Notify and Sound window in ApeX Trading Console for MT5 — each event with Screen, Mobile and Telegram checkboxes and a sound picker, grouped into orders, system, objects, time, Prop Guard and more
One row per event, one column per channel.

How do you get alerts on your phone?

  1. Install the MetaTrader 5 app on your phone and find your MetaQuotes ID in the app’s settings.
  2. In MetaTrader on your computer go to Tools › Options, switch to the Notifications tab, turn on Enable Push Notifications and paste the ID there.
  3. Tick Mobile for the events you want on your phone.

The same steps are in the window itself, under How to set up mobile notifications.

What it will not do

  • Nothing is sent while MetaTrader is closed. The console sends every alert, so the terminal has to be running — on your computer or a VPS.
  • MetaTrader limits phone pushes. No more than two a second and ten a minute. If many events fire together, switch Mobile on only for the ones that matter.
  • A sound needs someone to hear it. For anything you must not miss when away from the desk, use Mobile or Telegram as well.

Questions

How do I get MT5 notifications on my phone?

Copy the MetaQuotes ID from the MetaTrader app on your phone, paste it into Tools › Options › Notifications on your computer with push notifications enabled, then tick Mobile for the events you want in Notify & Sound.

Can I have a different sound for each event?

Yes. Each row has its own sound, and choosing one plays it so you can pick sounds you can tell apart.

Why did a news alert not arrive?

News alerts need two things switched on: the News row here, and the currencies and impact levels on the News tab. See Economic calendar.

Checked against ApeX Trading Console 6.593.