Use Case · Fundamentals

P/E buy-zone alerts

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Long-term investors usually have a list of companies they like and a price they'd buy them at. The hard part is being there when the price hits — checking valuations manually every day doesn't scale. A buy-zone alert puts the watch on autopilot.

How buy-zone alerts work

You set a watchlist of names you'd be willing to own at the right valuation, and you tell Tickerbot the conditions: a P/E ratio below a threshold, optionally combined with a P/B or P/S ratio, and optionally further filtered by dividend yield or current price relative to the 52-week range.

When any name in your watchlist meets all the conditions at the same time, you get a notification. Until then, the alert is silent.

Single-condition zone
Notify me when any stock in my watchlist has a P/E ratio below 15
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JPM hit P/E 14.2 today. First match in 4 months.

Stacking valuation conditions

Single-metric thresholds catch a lot of stocks that look cheap but have deteriorating fundamentals. Stacking conditions filters those out.

Multi-condition value zone
Any stock in my watchlist with a P/E under 15, price-to-book under 2, and dividend yield above 3%
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JPM matches all three. P/E 14.2, P/B 1.9, yield 3.1%.

Combining with price action

The cleanest entries on value names are often when they hit the buy zone after a sharp drawdown — a sign of a market overreaction rather than slow deterioration.

Capitulation in a value zone
Any of my watchlist stocks with a P/E under 12 that is also down more than 25% from its 52-week high
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1 stock matches. Down 31% from highs, P/E 11.4. Likely overshoot.

Variants worth setting up

Set up your first buy-zone alert

Set the conditions once. Tickerbot watches the universe for you.