NT8 chart alerts aren't working for customized NT script

[amsun]

Hi Team,

NT 8 chart alerts aren't working with customized script. Attached for your reference.
I am creating an alert with greearrowdetect equals to 1 (0 bars ago) for buy alert and redarrowdetect equals to 1(0 bars ago) for sell alert.

chart alert sound or pop up dialog aren't getting generated.

Can anyone please help me fixing the script to work with chart alerts?

Please let me know in case of more details.

Thank you.

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello amsun,

Thank you for your note.

I believe the issue is that you're not using the correct path for your alert sounds.

Here's what you are currently using for the path:

private string confirmedUpTrend = @"\sounds\newuptrend.wav";
private string confirmedDownTrend = @"\sounds\newdowntrend.wav";
private string potentialUpTrend = @"\sounds\potentialuptrend.wav";
private string potentialDownTrend = @"\sounds\potentialdowntrend.wav";

And here's how it should be structured:

Alert("PotentialUpTrend", Priority.Medium, "PotentialUpTrend", NinjaTrader.Core.Globals.InstallDir+potentialUpTre nd, rearmTime, Brushes.Black, upColor);

When you leave out the InstallDir part, it can't find the sounds because it doesn't automatically know where the install directory is.

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance to you.

[amsun]

Hi Kate,

Thank you for the details.

The provided details helped and I see the alerts are generating now.

Thanks.

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello amsun,

Thank you for your reply.

This sounds like perhaps greenarrowdetect and redarrowdetect are never equal to 1 for some reason.

The first thing I would recommend would be to turn on the Order Trace function if you're trying to see what's happening with any orders you're trying to submit:

Strategy Builder > Default Properties > More Properties > Trace Orders, or:

if (State == State.SetDefaults)
{
TraceOrders = true;
}

Once you then recompile the strategy, you can open a new NinjaScript Output window under New > NinjaScript Output. This will print a log of any orders submitted by the strategy during while it's running, along with any ignored orders. You can then look through and see what may be occurring.

Here is a link to our help guide that goes into more detail on tracing orders:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/traceorders2.htm

Trace orders alone may not give you the full picture of whether or not something should occur on a given bar, so adding prints to your strategy that will show in the NinjaScript Output window, with information on what the variables you're using for your conditions are on a particular bar, can be helpful.

This forum post goes into great detail on how to use prints to help figure out where issues may stem from — this should get you going in the correct direction. You can even add these using the Strategy Builder.

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-7/strategy-development-aa/99209-date-conditions-not-working

If you run into issues like we saw here, the above information will allow you to print out all values used in the condition in question that may be evaluating differently. With the printout information you can assess what is different between the two. I would specifically have it print the values for greenarrowdetect and redarrowdetect.

Please let us know if we may be of further assistance to you.

[amsun]

Thank you kate.

This helps and I am progressing now. Currently sound alerts are resolved and working on submit order actions.

Once again, thank you very much for you help.

Amar