Sound Alerts Triggered at same Time

[djkiwi]

Hi Guys. I have had an annoying problem with sound alerts for quite some time and would be grateful for some help. Basically I trade multiple instruments and sound alerts are critical. Here is a snippet of the code:

if (FirstTickOfBar) boolAlertSounded = false;    

if (!boolAlertSounded)
                        
                    if (Instrument.MasterInstrument.Name == "6E"){PlaySound("6elongdivergence.wav");}
                    else if (Instrument.MasterInstrument.Name == "CL"){PlaySound("cllongdivergence.wav");}
                    else if (Instrument.MasterInstrument.Name == 
                    boolAlertSounded = true; 

The problem with this is if 3 instruments trigger at once on the first tick of the bar I only hear one alert because only one can be heard at a time. The only way around this I see is adding some sort of timer eg:

if (Instrument.MasterInstrument.Name == "6E")

SET TIMER TO WAIT 5 SECONDS

{PlaySound("6elongdivergence.wav");}

else if (Instrument.MasterInstrument.Name == "CL")

SET TIMER TO WAIT 10 SECONDS

{PlaySound("cllongdivergence.wav");}


boolAlertSounded = true;

Any ideas how to achieve this?

Thanks in advance
DJ

[NinjaTrader_AdamP]

djkiwi,

Why not use the Alert() method? It has a cooldown timer, and also outputs more information to the Alert Window. It can play a sound as well.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?alert.htm

[djkiwi]

Sound Alert

Hi Adam, I thought you might say that . Actually I used to use that before but the problem was it would go off every 60 seconds or so. Say a 10 Renko bar may sit there for 30 minutes. If I set it for 30 minutes then there were 5 bars in 30 minutes how would that work?

Basically l like the firsttickofbar concept but I'm not sure how the Alert could be used with that because it would still trigger at the first tick of bar irrespective of the Alert timer set? Am I understanding this correctly?

Thanks
DJ

[NinjaTrader_AdamP]

djkiwi,

If you used the first tick of bar criteria it would only call the alert once at the first tick of each bar as long as the other conditions were true, however may call it for more than one instrument.

The alert would be easiest to remedy your sound issue, as it would allow some cooldown if you gave it the same alert name between instruments. It would also let you see if for example 3 instruments had the alert when you only heard the sound once. You could also print to the output window, or log to help you decipher how many instruments generated an alert at the same time.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?print.htm

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt7/index.html?log.htm