Alert based on Buy signals

[Xchange43]

Hello Folks,

I m still exploring all the options with NT8 and so far, it's an amazing software!! very powerfull and full of possibilities!!

I m wondering if there is a way for me to setup an alert based on the green arrow or red arrow that you can see in this screenshot?



I use the IchimokuSignal from this forum

Thanks,

[NinjaTrader_JessicaP]

Thank you for your question XChange. I will be happy to help set up your alert. So that I can make sure I'm giving correct advice and so I can test on my end before giving you an answer I know for sure works, I was hoping to get a little more information from you?

First, can you pick the Ichimoku indicator on this page that you are using and give us a direct link?

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/local_links_search.php?action=show&literal=1&search=+Ichimoku&desc=1

Second, can you let us know the name of the indicator that is drawing arrows? My best guess is that you are using the SuperTrend indicator found here,

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=7&id=783

Is this correct?

I look forward to assisting further.

[Xchange43]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply and your help,

Right, i m using this Ichi indicator :

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=7&id=777

And actually, you are right, it's the supertrend who give me this arrow, that make sense.

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=7&id=783

Thanks,

[Xchange43]

Thank you for your question XChange. I will be happy to help set up your alert. So that I can make sure I'm giving correct advice and so I can test on my end before giving you an answer I know for sure works, I was hoping to get a little more information from you?

First, can you pick the Ichimoku indicator on this page that you are using and give us a direct link?

http://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/local_links_search.php?action=show&literal=1&search=+Ichimoku&desc=1

Second, can you let us know the name of the indicator that is drawing arrows? My best guess is that you are using the SuperTrend indicator found here,

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=7&id=783

Is this correct?

I look forward to assisting further.

So actually it will be an alert based on the supertrend signal

[NinjaTrader_JessicaP]

I appreciate your patience. These videos will help you edit the AuSuperTrendU11 indicator so that you will be able to detect from an Alert when a Green or Red arrow is placed.

https://www.screencast.com/t/V1m5EmUmo

https://www.screencast.com/t/wla7zgbP

The second video cut out, but after following those videos you will be able to detect a Green arrow whenever GreenArrowDetect 0 bars ago is equal to 1, and a red arrow when RedArrowDetect[0] = 1.

I have attached the modified script to this post for convenience. Please let us know if there are any other ways we can help.

[Xchange43]

Hello Jessica,

This is really appreciated, thanks for making this video's and i just successfully implemented them in my setup.

I let you know tomorrow in real action how they behave on my setup,

Again, big thank you

[Scoot]

Hello Jessica or hello to this thread at least.

I have tried implementing this with NT8 and the fibonacci super trend indi. All went well until trying to add the last steps ie the data inputs. For some reason the code isn't correct and comes back with errors. The attached file does not have the last two steps I took them out.

These are the lines that are giving me the problem...

Values[3][0] = HasGreenArrow[0] ? 1.0 : 0.0;
Values[4][0] = HasRedArrow[0] ? 1.0 : 0.0;

[Scoot]

Thanks in advance for any input

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello Scoot,

Thank you for your post.

What is the error you receive?

I did notice that in your code there are only 4 plots for this indicator, whereas in Jessica's example that used the AuSuperTrendU11, there were 5. So when you have this:

Values[3][0] = HasGreenArrow[0] ? 1.0 : 0.0;
Values[4][0] = HasRedArrow[0] ? 1.0 : 0.0;

There aren't 5 plots, so it wouldn't be able to find anything for Values[4][0]. You'd want to change these to Values[2][0] and Values[3][0].

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

[Scoot]

I get a coding error as seen in the attachment.

[Scoot]

I also changed the values to [2] and [3] and still get the same error

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello Scoot,

Thank you for your reply.

You have those two lines in the middle of an if-else block but not inside one of the parts of it, so it's interrupting the logic there. Try putting them after the last else statement there.

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

[Scoot]

Well, it worked with regard to syntax working, I appreciate your speedy responses Kate! It just doesn't work, the arrow options show up in the scroll down box in the alert section, I've tried every possible setting with regard to "conditions," and "rearm" type etc. Just not sure what is going on. Could you make a suggestion for someone to hire in order to get this worked out, I'm not a coder... obviously

[NinjaTrader_Kate]

Hello Scoot,

Thank you for your reply.

I took another look at the indicator since it has the alert sound built right into it, but I noticed when testing that it was throwing an error when trying to actually play the alert sound.

If you change this (Note it appears twice in the code):

PlaySound(AlertFile);

To this:

PlaySound(NinjaTrader.Core.Globals.InstallDir + @"\sounds"+AlertFile);

The sounds should play correctly when the arrows are detected without having to set a separate alert.

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

[manxtrader75]

Sorry to drudge up an old post but I am having issues with setting up alerts for the Supertrend indicator. I tried the steps above from Kate but it's not working. I would love for the out of the box alert indicator to work but the code mentioned above PlaySound(AlertFile); doesn't exist in the latest version of the SuperTrend indicator (https://ninjatraderecosystem.com/use...-indicators-2/) so I'm at a loss.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Craig