Cryptocurrency alerts on Telegram
Notifications about rising open interest, extreme funding, large liquidations, and abnormal volumes—directly in Telegram. Sub-200ms latency via WebSocket.
The crypto market operates 24/7, but you don't. TRdesk alerts monitor derivatives data from Binance, OKX, and Bybit and send signals to Telegram within milliseconds. Instead of manually monitoring 200+ futures pairs, you set your conditions once and receive a notification when the market moves in the direction you're interested in.
Why do you need alerts if you have a screener?
The screener displays the current situation for all coins—you open it when you sit down to trade. But market anomalies don't wait until you're at your computer. ETH funding can plummet below -0.1% at 3 AM, and a $50M liquidation cascade can begin while you're on the go.
Alerts solve this problem. You set specific conditions—"BTC OI up 10% in 5 minutes" or "liquidation of more than $1M"—and TRdesk sends a notification to Telegram when triggered. Data is received from exchange APIs via WebSocket streams, without polling or artificial delays. The latency from the event to your phone is less than 200 milliseconds.
Who's it for: Perpetual futures traders who need automated monitoring. Instead of staring at charts 16 hours a day, you'll only see the events that actually impact your trades.
How to connect to the TRdesk Telegram bot
Log in to your account
Log in via Telegram or Google at trdesk.com. If you don't have an account yet, registration takes just one click. All alert settings are linked to your profile and sync automatically across devices.
Connect a Telegram bot
In your account, open the "Notifications" section and click "Connect Telegram." The bot will send you a confirmation code—enter it on the website. The entire process takes about 30 seconds. Once connected, the bot is ready to receive alerts.
Create your first alert
Select a coin, trigger type, and threshold. Example: "BTC - funding below -0.05% - notify." Or: "ETH - OI growth by 15% in 10 minutes." The number of alerts is unlimited—create as many conditions as needed for your strategy.
Types of triggers for alerts
Each trigger tracks a specific anomaly in the derivatives market. Below is a complete list with example conditions and an explanation of why these events are critical for traders.
| Trigger | Example of a condition | Why track? |
|---|---|---|
| Open interest growth | BTC OI +10% in 5 minutes | A sudden influx of leveraged capital—new positions are opened aggressively. Often precedes a momentum price movement. |
| Extreme Funding | ETH Funding < -0.1% | Shorts are paying longs an abnormally high rate. Historically, this is the potential squeeze zone for short positions. |
| Major liquidation | Liquidation > $1M per minute | A forced liquidation of a large position triggers a cascade: subsequent liquidations push the price even further. |
| Abnormal volume | SOL volume +500% of average | A sudden surge in trading activity—the entry of a major participant, a reaction to news, or the beginning of manipulation |
| Breakout of the price level | BTC Crosses $100,000 | Psychological and technical levels: no need to monitor the chart, the bot will tell you when the price reaches your level |
| Changing the Long/Short Ratio | L/S BTC < 0.8 | Sharp skew in positioning: When shorts dominate en masse, it's a contrarian bullish signal. |
| Change in funding | DOGE Funding from -0.01% to +0.08% | Rapid change in funding direction: the market switches from bearish to bullish in one calculation period |
| Cascade of liquidations | Liquidations > $10M in 5 minutes | Massive liquidation of leveraged positions. During the FTX cascade in November 2022, BTC liquidations reached $100 million per minute. |
Real-World Scenarios: When an Alert Saves a Deal
Liquidation Cascade: November 2022, FTX Collapse
On November 8, 2022, liquidations in the BTC market reached $100 million in one minute. Traders with large liquidation alerts (the $1 million threshold) received the first signal 4-6 seconds before the main wave crashed the price from $20,500 to $15,700. These seconds were enough to close long positions or open short positions.
The difference between a polling service with a 15-second delay and a WebSocket with a 200ms delay in such situations is the difference between loss and profit. With cascading liquidations, the price can move 5-7% in a minute, and every second of delay increases slippage when closing a position.
Short squeeze: BTC October 2023
In mid-October 2023, BTC funding on Binance dropped to -0.04% and persisted for two days. Open interest was growing, with short sellers aggressively entering. A trader with an alert saying "BTC funding below -0.03%" received a notification in the first hours of the anomaly's growth.
Result: BTC rose from $27,000 to $35,000 in two weeks. Those who responded to the alert and went long captured 30% of the move. Those who only followed the market during sessions saw the already established fact on the chart. An alert doesn't guarantee anything, but it puts you first in line.
Abnormal growth of OI with sideways movement
ETH has been trading in the $3,200–$3,300 range for a week now, with volume falling—a dull market. But the "OI +15% in 10 minutes" alert goes off at 2 AM. Someone is taking a large leveraged position without moving the price—classic behavior of an institutional investor or a whale strategy.
This situation is like a compressed spring. The direction is harder to predict, but the very fact of the anomaly suggests a breakout from the range will happen soon, and it will be sharp. Simply place pending orders above and below the range.
How the notification system works
TRdesk alerts receive data via WebSocket streams directly from exchange APIs—this is a fundamental architectural difference from services that poll APIs using a timer. Polling introduces a latency of 5 to 30 seconds because the server requests the exchange every N seconds and only then checks for triggers. WebSocket receives an event the moment it occurs on the exchange.
Delivery chain: the exchange sends data via WebSocket → the TRdesk server checks your alert conditions → when triggered, it sends a message to the Telegram Bot API. The overall latency is less than 200 milliseconds. In practice, this means you receive a notification faster than you can refresh the exchange page manually.
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