How it works
Every 30 seconds, while you are signed in, the extension asks Ballista whether anything new is waiting. If something is, Chrome raises a desktop notification. A price alert that fired reads:Ballista: Price Alert Triggered market-slug went above 65¢A copy trade that stopped carries its own message instead — the same sentence you see in the bell sheet, naming the copy trade and the position left open:
Ballista: Copy Trade Stopped Copy trade “whale-follow” hit its balance limit and was switched off, but one position could not be sold…The check starts when the extension is installed and again each time the browser starts, so there is nothing to switch on.
Each entry is announced once
An entry raises a desktop notification the first time it appears, and never again. The extension remembers what it has announced, across browser restarts, so something you leave unread waits quietly under the bell instead of interrupting you every 30 seconds. Marking an entry read drops it from the bell and from that memory. A later alert on the same market is a new entry, and is announced normally.When several arrive together
A single check raises at most one desktop notification, so when several things land in the same 30 seconds there is an order to it:- A Copy trade stopped notice takes priority over any price alert. It means money is still in the market and needs your attention, where a price alert is a trigger you set yourself and can read at your leisure.
- Otherwise the most recent entry you have not been shown is the one raised.
On a price alert, the figure the notification quotes is the threshold you set, not
the price that traded.
If nothing appears
- You are signed out. The check does nothing without a session — open the popup and sign in.
- Your browser is closed. The check runs inside the browser, so notifications pile up unread and greet you at the bell when you come back.
- Notifications are blocked for your browser. These are ordinary system notifications; if your operating system is set to silence your browser, or you are in a focus or do-not-disturb mode, they will not be shown.