Toggle on first alert

[BReal]

Below I have three SMA's. When all of them are rising I get an alert. When all are falling I get an alert. My issue is I would like to only get an alert on the first instance of all rising or all falling. My problem with the code below is that I get an alert every bar in which all are rising or falling.

For example: The market has peaked and is starting to fall. All three SMA's change to falling and I get an alert. The next bar the market continues to fall but I do not get an alert. The market continues to fall for a while but bottoms out and starts upward.

All three SMA's change to rising and I get an alert and just like the falling alert I do not get another alert until all are falling again.

Thanks in advance!!!

if 	(		
					
					Rising(SMA(14))
					&&Rising(SMA(28))
					&&Rising(SMA(42))
					
					)
					
					Alert("AlertLineCrossing", Cbi.Priority.High, alertMessage, soundFile, 0, Color.White, Color.Black);
				
				if 	(		
					
					Falling(SMA(14))
					&&Falling(SMA(28))
					&&Falling(SMA(42))
					
					)
					
					Alert("AlertLineCrossing", Cbi.Priority.High, alertMessage, soundFile, 0, Color.White, Color.Black);

[NinjaTrader_AlanP]

Hello,

To have your rising and falling actions alternate, within your if statements you could check if a bool variable was not equal to true.

Within the actions however you set that bool variable to true. This variable is set back to false after the opposite condition becomes true.

You could try the following,

xRisingLast=false;
xFallingLast=false;


  if( Rising(SMA(14))    &&Rising(SMA(28))    &&Rising(SMA(42)) && xRisingLast !=true)
{
  Alert('AlertLineCrossing', Cbi.Priority.High,
alertMessage, soundFile, 0, Color.White, Color.Black);
xRisingLast=true;  //prevents this block from running until this is set to false by next blocv
xFallingLast=false;

}


if  (       Falling(SMA(14)) &&Falling(SMA(28)) &&Falling(SMA(42)) && xFallingLast != true  )
{
   Alert('AlertLineCrossing', Cbi.Priority.High,
alertMessage, soundFile, 0, Color.White, Color.Black);
xFallingLast=true;
xRisingLast=false; //Allows the first if statement to become true.
}

Please let us know if you need further assistance.

[BReal]

Thank you very much!!!