Price alerts: do beginners need them, or do they feed the addiction?

Alerts fire when price reaches a level, so you don't have to watch the screen. Set up well, they support patience. Set up badly, they pull you back to the chart all day.

What's your experience?

• which alerts you actually use
• whether alerts made you trade more or less
• one alert setup you'd recommend to a beginner

A useful beginner exercise: set alerts at your planned entry and stop, then close the platform until one fires.