Free Stock Alerts — and What Real-Time Actually Costs
A free account shows the alert tape 15 minutes behind plus the top setups every night — real-time is one plan away.
Truly real-time stock data costs money to license, so genuinely free real-time alerts are rare. What you can get free is a delayed alert tape and a daily setup board — useful for learning, planning and swing trades.
StockSetups gives free accounts both: the live alert tape and session Top Lists on a 15-minute delay, and the top 3 setups in every lane with the full chart, levels and trade plan. Pro makes everything real-time with data included.
Free: delayed alert tape
35+ alert types — runners, gaps, halts, breakouts, volume bursts — visible 15 minutes after they fire.
Free: daily setups
The top 3 of every lane each night, each with the full dossier and trade plan, plus a whole-market end-of-day scanner.
Pro: real-time
No delay, custom alert rules, price-level alerts and Discord/Slack webhooks — $29/mo with a 14-day free trial.
No hidden data fees
Pro includes its real-time data; there's no exchange add-on or subscriber agreement to sign.
See it live
These run on real data from the latest scan — open any to see today's names:
Frequently asked
Are there free real-time stock alerts?
Rarely with full real-time data, because exchanges license it. StockSetups' free tier shows alerts on a 15-minute delay; real-time is included with Pro at $29/mo.
What's included free without a card?
A free login gets the delayed alert tape and Top Lists, the top 3 setups per lane with full dossiers, and the end-of-day scanner. The 14-day Pro trial requires a card and can be cancelled anytime.
Get daily signals & real-time alerts.
StockSetups scans ~12,300 US stocks & ETFs after every close and sorts every long setup into four ranked lanes — each with a trade plan — plus an always-on engine firing 35+ real-time intraday alerts. Free for 14 days, cancel in one click.
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