Integrations

Telegram Notifications

Connect the Simula Telegram bot to receive your strategy alerts in a private chat.

Telegram Notifications

You can receive your strategy alerts on Telegram. When one of your alerts fires -- your strategy enters or exits a trade on a candle that just closed -- the Simula bot sends you a message saying what happened and why.

Unlike Discord and Slack, which use webhook URLs you paste in, Telegram connects through the bot itself. You tap a link in Simula, press Start in the chat with the bot, and you are connected. No tokens or URLs to copy.

Which Plan You Need

Strategy alerts are part of the Standard and Premium plans. You can connect Telegram on any plan, but Simula only sends alerts to it once you have an alert running on one of those plans.

Why Use Telegram?

Telegram's mobile app delivers push notifications reliably, which makes it a strong choice for alerts you need to see on your phone. The bot sends to a private chat with you, so alerts sit in your own chat list rather than a shared channel.

Telegram is one of several places Simula can send alerts. Every channel you connect gets every alert -- for example, Telegram for your phone and Discord for your desktop. Alerts also always appear inside Simula (the bell, the notifications page and the alert's history), whether or not any channel is connected.

Setup

You do not need to create a bot or handle any tokens -- Simula's bot is already set up.

Step 1: Open the Notifications Settings

  1. Go to Account settings, then the Notifications tab.
  2. Find the Telegram card and click Connect Telegram.

You can also connect Telegram while creating an alert: the Where alerts go part of the create sheet has the same Connect button.

Step 2: Press Start in Telegram

  1. Tap Open Telegram. Telegram opens (the app, or the web version) on the chat with the Simula bot.
  2. Press Start. The bot replies Connected to Simula.
  3. Back in Simula, the card updates by itself to Connected to @yourname (or just Connected if your Telegram account has no username).

That's it. Every alert you run now sends to Telegram as well as to your other connected channels.

The connect link expires after 15 minutes
If you do not press Start within 15 minutes, the link expires and the card says so. Click Connect Telegram again to get a new one. If you press Start on an expired link, the bot replies that the link has expired or was already used.

What Messages Look Like

Simula sends one message per alert event: each entry and each exit is its own message. Each message shows:

  • A bold headline with the symbol, the timeframe and what the strategy did, for example EURUSD 1h -- ENTRY INTO LONG TRADE. A strategy that uses more than one timeframe shows MULTI-TIMEFRAME in place of the timeframe.
  • The strategy name
  • The candle that triggered it, as its close time in your time zone (for example 14:00 candle close (Europe/London)), or the date for a daily strategy
  • A "Why" line -- the condition that held, with the values at that candle (for example Why: RSI(14) 28.4 < 30), or for an exit by a rule, the rule (for example Why: Take Profit at 2%)
  • An Open in Simula link to that event on the alert's page

A message does not include a price. The alert's page in Simula has the full record. The time zone is the one on the Time zone card in the Notifications tab; until you save one, times are in UTC.

Besides alerts, Telegram also receives the notices about your usage running low and about your alerts stopping or restarting because of it, so you hear about it while you are away from Simula.

Managing Your Connection

The Telegram card shows where the channel stands: Connected, Failing (the last few sends did not go through and Simula keeps trying), or Turned off (Telegram refused for good, for example because the bot was blocked, so Simula stopped sending). It also shows when the last message was delivered.

  • Send test sends a test message so you can check that alerts arrive.
  • Disconnect removes the link between your Simula account and the chat. There is no on/off switch that keeps the link: to get Telegram alerts again, connect again from the start. Sending /stop to the bot in Telegram does the same as Disconnect.

Quiet Hours

The Quiet hours card in the same tab pauses Telegram, Discord, Slack and push notifications between the hours you choose, in your time zone. An alert that fires during quiet hours is not sent to Telegram afterwards -- it still appears in Simula.

Troubleshooting

I tapped Open Telegram but nothing happened
The button opens a t.me link, so you need Telegram installed (desktop or mobile app) or open in a browser at web.telegram.org. If no Telegram app is available, the link has nowhere to go. You can also click Cancel and Connect Telegram again to get a fresh link.
I pressed Start but the card still says Waiting for Start
The card checks for the connection every few seconds until the link expires. If the bot replied that the link has expired or was already used, click Connect Telegram again and press Start on the new link. If the bot replied Connected to Simula, reload the page -- the card reads its status fresh.
I blocked the bot by accident -- how do I reconnect?
The next time Simula tries to send, Telegram refuses, so Simula turns the channel off and the card says why. Open the chat with the Simula bot in Telegram, unblock it and press Restart. That reconnects the chat if Simula had turned it off. Or, after unblocking, click Reconnect Telegram on the card and press Start on the new link.

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