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Market Alerts

Vanguard sends email alerts for brokerage order executions, transaction submissions and stock & ETF alerts. You can setup automatic forwarding of these specific Vanguard e-mails to alerts@portfoliotoolbox.com and have the content of the e-mail summarized and sent to your mobile phone as a text message in near real-time. Sample text messages are shown below.

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alerts@portfoliotoolbox.com
Tue, Jun 13 at 10:32 AM
The last sale for VANGUARD INDEX FDS VANGUARD TOTAL STK MKT ETF was $216.47, up $0.62 from its prior day close. Over the past 52 weeks, VTI has risen 15.48%.
Today 9:43 AM
Dear Seann Herdejurgen, The following order executed on 09/21/2023 at 9:42 AM, Eastern time: Account: 1234 Transaction type: Buy Order type: Limit Security: VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET ETF (VTI) Quantity: 10 share(s) Price:* $215.72

How it Works

Trade executed at stock exchange
Security bought or sold
Notification sent to Vanguard brokerage
E-mail notification from Alerts@Vanguard.com
User receives e-mail notification
E-mail notification auto forwarded to alerts@portfoliotoolbox.com
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E-mail notification converted to text message
User receives text message

This diagram provides an overview of the steps necessary to send market alerts to your phone. A failure or delay in any one of these steps impacts your ability to receive a market alert. For this reason, Portfolio Toolbox cannot guarantee that market alerts will be delivered to your phone in a timely manner, if at all.

How do I setup market alerts on my phone?