Alert in Indicator or Market Analyzer?

[kalim]

I am trying to write some Alert for my Indicators. For example, RSI cross over overbought or oversold. Such basic alert are easily configurable in TradeStation or Multicharts. But I cannot find it in NinjaTrader.

The first instinct is for me to program it in Indicator. Expose it to properties for some configuration such as alert sound, etc.

However, I saw in forum many replies point to write the alert using another indicator, expose it to Market Analyzer for it to alert.

Before I start programming, I would like to ask for advice which route should I take? I am new to NinjaTrader.

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello Kalim,
Welcome to the forum and I am happy to assist you.

You can easily code it as an indicator or you can also use the MA to do it.

Please refer here to know how to create an alert via the Market Analyzer

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

If you want to code an indicator then the below code demonstrates how to sound an alert if RSI crosses above 70.

if (CrossAbove(this.RSI(14,3), 70,1))
{
	Alert("Alert", Priority.High, "Rsi crossed above 70", "Alert1.wav", 10, Color.Blue, Color.White);
}

To learn NinjaScript please go through these help guide references first to get some basic knowledge.
• http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...g_concepts.htm
• http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...indicators.htm
• http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/h...strategies.htm

Please let me know if I can assist you any further.

[kalim]

Thanks for your quick response.

MA can do simple alert for indicator greater/less than, cross over/below. For more complex conditions, I think I will have to code it in indicator.

I am looking for the alert of an indicator Turning Up or Turning Down. For example, ADX/DM turning up or turning down, MA turning up or turning down. Can this be done in MA? If not, is there a function/method I can call in coding, something like crossover/crossbelow?

[NinjaTrader_Joydeep]

Hello kalim,
Yes, MA can only trigger simple conditions. For more advanced conditions you have to code your custom NinjaScript code.

Unfortunately there are no native Turn up or Turn down functions. You have to custom code any such functions.

Please let me know if I can assist you any further.