How to Cancel a Subscription (And What Happens Next)
Cancelling is handled by Apple or Google, not inside the app. Here is exactly where to do it.
iOS
Settings → your name → Subscriptions → CoinPriceAlert → Cancel Subscription.
Android
Play Store → profile → Payments and subscriptions → Subscriptions → CoinPriceAlert → Cancel.
You keep access until the period ends
Cancelling stops renewal; it does not remove the time you already paid for.
Your data stays put
Alerts and portfolio entries remain; only paid features become unavailable at expiry.
Timeframes: why the same signal means different things
Timeframe selection is quietly the most consequential setting on any chart. A 5-minute chart is dominated by noise, execution and short-term liquidity. A daily chart shows genuine supply and demand. A weekly chart shows the trend that actually determines multi-year outcomes. None is more correct — but mixing them is how people end up taking a long-term position and managing it on a 15-minute chart.
Match the timeframe to your holding period. If you expect to hold for years, intraday movement is not information you should be acting on, and watching it will only cost you the position. If you are trading a multi-day move, the weekly trend is context rather than a trigger.
A useful convention: use the higher timeframe to decide direction and whether to be involved at all, and the lower one only to choose an entry once that decision is made. Alerts fit this naturally — set them on levels that matter on the higher timeframe, and you stop needing to watch the lower one.
A short checklist to work from
If you take one thing from this article, make it this list.
**Write the question first.** What specifically do you want to know? Vague monitoring produces vague results. **Define the condition.** A number, a percentage, or a relationship — something that is either true or false, not a feeling. **Decide the action in advance.** If nothing would change when the condition is met, do not set the alert.
**Size for the drawdown you can actually hold.** Not the one you hope for. **Check the market before reacting to the asset.** Most moves are not asset-specific. **Automate the watching.** You will not be looking when it matters. **Review monthly.** Delete what never fired and what you never acted on.
Seven lines, and doing them consistently will outperform almost any refinement of the analysis itself. The edge in this market is much less about knowing more than everyone else and much more about reacting worse than everyone else less often.
The mistakes that cost the most
Setting thresholds too tight. This is the single most common failure, and it destroys the value of the whole system: alerts that fire constantly train you to dismiss them, so the important one arrives already ignored.
Reacting to a move without checking what caused it. A fall that happens while the whole market falls is a different event from a fall that happens alone, and the correct response differs completely. Checking correlation first takes ten seconds and prevents most panic decisions.
Changing the plan mid-move. The level you chose while calm is better than the one you will choose while watching a candle. If you find yourself widening a stop or moving a target during volatility, that is the moment to close the app rather than the moment to act.
Never reviewing. Most people set up this workflow once and never look at whether it worked. A short monthly review — what fired, what you did, what you would change — compounds faster than any refinement of the setup itself.
Turning this into something automatic
The gap between knowing what to do and doing it is closed by automation, not discipline. You will be asleep, in a meeting, on a flight, or simply not thinking about markets on the day it matters. That is not a discipline failure — it is the normal condition of having a life, and any system that ignores it is badly designed.
So convert every conclusion from this article into a condition that can be watched for you. A level you would act on becomes a price alert. A move size that would change your view becomes a percentage alert. A whole segment of the market you cannot follow coin by coin becomes one bulk rule that scans it and tells you when something unusual happens.
Set them, then close the app. The point of this workflow is not to make you watch more closely — it is to let you stop watching entirely and still be there when it counts. CoinPriceAlert sends push notifications for crypto, stocks, metals and forex, with quiet hours so nothing wakes you at 4am for a move you would not have traded anyway.
Why this workflow matters more in crypto than elsewhere
Crypto differs from every other market in three structural ways, and they compound. It never closes, so there is no overnight gap in which to think — the largest moves routinely happen while your part of the world sleeps. It is far more volatile, so a position sized like an equity position behaves nothing like one. And it is heavily retail-driven, which makes sentiment swings sharper and reversals faster.
That combination is exactly why this workflow is worth getting right here specifically. Approaches that are merely helpful in a nine-to-five market become load-bearing in one that runs continuously and moves several times as fast.
It is also why automation beats attention. You cannot watch a 24/7 market; you can only decide in advance what would make you act, and arrange to be told when it happens. Everything below is built on that principle.
Risk, defined properly
Risk is not volatility, though the two are constantly conflated. Volatility is how much a price moves. Risk is the probability of a permanent loss of capital — of the reason you owned something ceasing to be true. An asset can be extremely volatile and low-risk for a patient holder, or barely move and be extremely risky if it is quietly failing.
The practical difference: volatility is survived with position sizing, risk is avoided with research. Sizing a position so that a 60% drawdown is uncomfortable rather than ruinous handles volatility. Nothing about sizing protects you from owning something whose thesis has broken.
Which is why both jobs need doing. Size for the volatility, research for the risk, and set an alert at the level where the thesis would be in question — so the review is triggered by the market rather than by whether you happened to be paying attention that week.
Never miss a move in the markets you follow
Set a price or percentage alert once and get a push notification the moment it triggers — free, with quiet hours so nothing wakes you at 3am.
Frequently asked questions
Will alerts still reach me if the app is closed?
Yes — alerts are evaluated server-side and delivered as push notifications, so the app does not need to be open or running in the background. On Android, aggressive battery optimisation can delay notifications; excluding the app from battery optimisation resolves late delivery.
How often should I check this workflow?
Less often than instinct suggests. For a long-term holding, monthly is genuinely enough — the metrics that would change your view do not move daily. Set price alerts at the levels that would make you act, and let those decide when you need to look rather than checking on a schedule driven by anxiety.
Does this apply to stocks and commodities too?
The method does; the numbers do not. Levels, sizing and deciding in advance work identically across asset classes, but thresholds must be recalibrated — equities gap around earnings and only move during market hours, commodities trend more slowly, and currency pairs move a fraction of what crypto does, so a 1% move there is significant.
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