Notifications and Streaks
CleaRank notifications tell you what happened while you were away, and streaks count the days you sign in and review your trades. This page covers the top-bar bell, digests and streak alerts, the milestones from 3 to 100 days, and how notifications differ from simulator price alerts.
Two bells, two jobs
CleaRank shows a bell icon in two places and they are unrelated. Getting them straight saves a lot of confusion.
- The bell in the top bar, next to your avatar, with an unread count on it. This is the account notification center: digests and streak events. It is the subject of this article.
- The bell on a watchlist row inside the simulator. That one arms a price alert for that single instrument, so you get told when the price crosses a level you chose. It is documented in Watchlist and Price Alerts.
What is inside the notification bell
Click the top bar bell and a dropdown opens with your most recent notifications, newest first. Unread items are highlighted, and each one shows a title, a one-line body and a relative time such as “1d ago” that switches to a date once it is more than a week old.
Two controls sit at the edges of that dropdown:
- Mark all read clears the unread count in one click without deleting anything.
- View all opens the full notifications page, where you can page back through your whole history instead of only the latest few. Each row there has its own Mark read and Dismiss action, and you can switch between All and Unread.
Nothing in the bell is urgent by design. It is somewhere to catch up, not something that interrupts you: CleaRank does not push trading prompts at you.
The notifications you will actually get
The list is short on purpose. Today there are three things that put an item in your bell.
Performance digest sent
When your emailed performance digest goes out, a matching item appears in the bell reading “Weekly digest sent” (or “Daily digest sent” if you set the digest to daily), with the body “Check your email for this week’s trading summary.” The bell entry is the receipt; the substance is in the email. You choose the frequency in Settings > Notifications, where Performance digest can be set to Off, Daily or Weekly.
Streak Milestone
When your active-day streak reaches a milestone, you get “Streak Milestone! 3 Days” and so on, with a short congratulation. Milestones arrive at 3, 7, 14, 30, 60 and 100 consecutive days. Each one appears only once.
Streak Broken
If a full day passes with no activity, the counter resets and you get “Streak Broken” with the body “Your trading streak has been reset. Log in today to start a new one!” This one is a nudge rather than a scold: the reset happens on its own and there is no penalty attached to it anywhere else in the product.
The streak counter
Your streak is kept as three figures: Current streak, Longest streak and Total active days.
What counts as an active day
A day counts when you open CleaRank while signed in. It does not require a trade, a journal entry, or any particular action. Days are counted once each, on a UTC calendar day, so opening the app five times on the same day still counts as one.
This is a deliberate design choice worth understanding. Because the streak rewards showing up rather than trading, protecting it can never push you into an unnecessary trade. A metric that reset unless you traded would be actively harmful.
How to read the number
Treat the streak as an attendance record, not a performance measure. It says nothing about whether you traded well.
- Under 3 days is noise. Everyone has one good day.
- 7 days means you have been back for a full week including the days you did not feel like it. That is where a review habit starts to hold.
- 30 days is roughly six trading weeks, long enough that your journal has a sample worth analyzing rather than a handful of anecdotes.
- A broken streak is not a failure signal. Vacations and busy weeks break streaks. What matters is the Longest streak and Total active days figures beside it, which are cumulative and never reset.
The number that actually tells you something about quality is the Discipline percentage in the Trade Journal, which measures the share of your trades that followed your own rules. Pair them: attendance from the streak, execution quality from Discipline. See Goals and Trading Rules for how the rules behind Discipline are defined and scored.
Turning the volume up or down
Everything here is adjustable in Settings > Notifications, and the defaults are conservative.
- Open Settings. Click your avatar in the top right, then Settings, then the Notifications tab. Changes save automatically.
- Pick a digest cadence. Performance digest gives you Off, Daily or Weekly. Weekly suits most people: it lands with enough trades in it to be worth reading.
- Choose where price alerts land. Price alert delivery offers In-app only, Email only or Both. Email only is the right choice if you do not keep the tab open.
- Decide about streak nudges. Streak nudges send a friendly reminder when your streak is about to break. If reminders like that make you open the app out of obligation rather than intention, switch them off.
- Keep or drop product updates. Product updates and release notes is a separate, low-volume email switch for feature launches and important changes.
Full detail on every switch, including the Privacy and Appearance tabs, is in Account Settings and Preferences.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to trade to keep my streak alive?
No. Opening CleaRank while signed in is enough. The streak measures attendance, deliberately, so that protecting it can never push you into a trade you did not want to take.
Why does the bell show a number when I have no price alerts set?
Because that bell is the account notification center, not the price alert bell. Its count comes from digest receipts and streak events. Price alerts are armed from the bell on each watchlist row inside the simulator.
Can I stop the emails but keep the in-app items?
Yes. Set Performance digest to Off and set Price alert delivery to In-app only in Settings > Notifications. Streak events continue to appear in the bell.
What time does a streak day roll over?
Days are counted on the UTC calendar, so the rollover is at midnight UTC rather than in your local time zone. If you trade late in a western time zone, your session may count toward the following day.
Does dismissing a notification delete anything else?
No. Dismiss only removes that item from your list. It does not touch trades, journal entries, alerts, or your streak history.
Check your discipline score
The Discipline score is on the Dashboard tab of the Trade Journal, built from your own rules.
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CleaRank tools are for education and analysis. Nothing in this guide is financial advice.