Help with adding an alert to an indicator

July 27th, 2021, 09:30 PM

Hello. I’m having a problem figuring out how to add an alert to a simple indicator. I’ve looked around the web and read through easylanguage manuals and can’t find the exact solution so I thought I’d ask here.

Here is the code for the indicator. It is simple and just measures the change in price for a stock for X number of minutes. The example below is coded for 2 minutes (setting Timeframe to minutes)

Vars: cng(0);

cng = ((close / close[2] ) -1 ) ;
If Close[1] > 0 then
cng = ((Close / Close[2] ) -1 ) ;

Plot1(cng);

If Plot1 > 0 then
SetPlotColor(1, GREEN)
Else
SetPlotColor(1, RED);

I am just trying to add an alert to this so that it will alert me when the price change over X minutes is > 10%, or 12%... etc.

Can anyone assist? Thank you.

ABCTG · July 28th, 2021, 02:18 AM

Hi george10294,

welcome to futures.io. Take a look at the built-in RSI indicator. This demonstrates how you can trigger an alert on a cross over/under a threshold.

Regards,

ABCTG

george10294

Hello. I’m having a problem figuring out how to add an alert to a simple indicator. I’ve looked around the web and read through easylanguage manuals and can’t find the exact solution so I thought I’d ask here.

Here is the code for the indicator. It is simple and just measures the change in price for a stock for X number of minutes. The example below is coded for 2 minutes (setting Timeframe to minutes)

Vars: cng(0);

cng = ((close / close[2] ) -1 ) ;
If Close[1] > 0 then
cng = ((Close / Close[2] ) -1 ) ;

Plot1(cng);

If Plot1 > 0 then
SetPlotColor(1, GREEN)
Else
SetPlotColor(1, RED);

I am just trying to add an alert to this so that it will alert me when the price change over X minutes is > 10%, or 12%... etc.

Can anyone assist? Thank you.

July 30th, 2021, 03:27 PM

Thank you ABCTG.

This is what I came up with.

Vars: cng(0);

cng = ((close / close[5] ) -1 ) ;
If Close[1] > 0 then
cng = ((Close / Close[5] ) -1 ) ;

Plot1(cng);

If Plot1 > 0 then
SetPlotColor(1, GREEN)
Else
SetPlotColor(1, RED);

Inputs:

HiAlert( 0 ) [DisplayName = "HiAlert",
ToolTip = "Enter percentage amount above which an alert will be triggered. Example: 10."];

{ alert criteria }
if AlertEnabled then
begin
if cng crosses over HiAlert then
Alert( !( "Bullish alert" ) );
end;

Not sure if this is clean, but it seems to work as I intended. Thanks again.

Help with adding an alert to an indicator

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Help with adding an alert to an indicator