About alerts for intraday high price renewals

March 21st, 2023, 09:17 PM

I would like to receive an alert each time an intraday high is renewed, but if the intraday high is renewed consecutively as shown in the attached image, the alert will go off for the second bar as well.

I only want to receive alerts for the first bar where the intraday high is renewed.

Code

variables: var0( 0 ) ; 

if BarType <= 1 or BarType >= 5 then                             
	begin
	if Date <> Date[1] then
		var0 = High 
	else if High > var0 then 
		begin
		Plot1( High, "NewHi-D" ) ;
		Alert ;
		var0 = High ;
		end ;
	end ;

ABCTG · March 22nd, 2023, 05:08 AM

LW11041104,

if it the desired outcome is to allow a new alert whenever a bar makes a new high after at least one bar that did not make a higher high you can accomplish this by storing the value of Currentbar together with the high.
Then you can only trigger the alert if:

Code

if CurrentBar > highBarNumber then //this will only allow the alert to trigger if the last bar did not already make a new high
   Alert ;

var0 = High ;
highBarNumber = CurrentBar ; //we store the bar number of the current high update here, after the alert check

highBarNumber would be a new variable here that you would have to declare within your code.

Regards,

ABCTG

LW11041104

I would like to receive an alert each time an intraday high is renewed, but if the intraday high is renewed consecutively as shown in the attached image, the alert will go off for the second bar as well.

I only want to receive alerts for the first bar where the intraday high is renewed.

Code

variables: var0( 0 ) ; 

if BarType <= 1 or BarType >= 5 then                             
	begin
	if Date <> Date[1] then
		var0 = High 
	else if High > var0 then 
		begin
		Plot1( High, "NewHi-D" ) ;
		Alert ;
		var0 = High ;
		end ;
	end ;

March 23rd, 2023, 01:20 AM

Thank you for your reply.

I have modified the code as follows for the code I asked about, is it correct?

Code

variable:var0(0), highBarNumber(high);

if CurrentBar > highBarNumber then    
   Alert ;

   
var0 = High ;
highBarNumber = CurrentBar;

ABCTG · March 23rd, 2023, 05:06 AM

LW11041104,

if this is the entire code, it would not be correct. Without any comments in the code it is also hard to tell why you do what you do. Why is highBarNumber initialized with high for example?
In general, my post was meant as an addition to your code, not a replacement.

Apart from that, I would suggest testing code changes to see if they do what you have in mind. You can even use the bar replay feature to check it quickly.

Regards,

ABCTG

LW11041104

Thank you for your reply.

I have modified the code as follows for the code I asked about, is it correct?

Code

variable:var0(0), highBarNumber(high);

if CurrentBar > highBarNumber then    
   Alert ;

   
var0 = High ;
highBarNumber = CurrentBar;

March 24th, 2023, 05:10 AM

Thank you for your reply.

You can achieve this by saving the Currentbar value along with the high in previous answers. I was wondering if I should set the initial value of high to the highBarNumber variable.

Regarding the addition of code, I would appreciate it if you could tell me where to add it.

ABCTG · March 24th, 2023, 06:05 AM

LW11041104,

you should be able to achieve what you have in mind by adding parts from the code snippet I posted to your code in exactly the same locations where I added code.

highBarNumber is meant to hold a bar number value and while it probably will do no harm to initialize it with high, initializing it with 0 appears to be more appropriate here.

Regards,

ABCTG

LW11041104

Thank you for your reply.

You can achieve this by saving the Currentbar value along with the high in previous answers. I was wondering if I should set the initial value of high to the highBarNumber variable.

Regarding the addition of code, I would appreciate it if you could tell me where to add it.

March 25th, 2023, 09:22 AM

Thank you for your reply.

We will try the various things you have indicated and will contact you again.

March 30th, 2023, 09:51 PM

I am contacting you because of the verification results after adding the code.

It seems that I was able to achieve what I hoped for.
Thank you very much for helping me.

ABCTG · March 31st, 2023, 06:13 AM

LW11041104,

I am glad to hear that. Feel free to post the final code in the interest of helping other futures.io members.

Regards,

ABCTG

LW11041104

I am contacting you because of the verification results after adding the code.

It seems that I was able to achieve what I hoped for.
Thank you very much for helping me.

April 1st, 2023, 06:47 AM

Thank you for your assistance.

Here is the code.
Best regards.

Code

variables: var0( 0 ),highBarNumber(0); 

if CurrentBar > highBarNumber then    
   Alert ;
   
var0 = High ;
highBarNumber = CurrentBar;

if BarType <= 1 or BarType >= 5 then                             
	begin
	if Date <> Date[1] then
		var0 = High 
	else if High > var0 then 
		begin
		Plot1( High, "NewHi-D" ) ;
		Alert ;
		var0 = High ;
		end ;
	end ;

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