Alerts don't work very well in Market Reply

[Austiner87]

Hi NT,

When i use an alert in Market Replay, and set to reset to "on bar close", it only triggers some of the time, or rarely. even when I set a timer, like 3 seconds, it doesn't appear to reset and trigger either to real seconds or the seconds in the Market Replay. Is this a known issue with a fix? Thank you!

[NinjaTrader_Erick]

Hello Austiner87,

Thank you for reaching out.

Alerts are checked every 200 milliseconds and the Playback connection pumps data in every 1 second when set to MAX speed. Due to this, alerts are not intended to be used with Playback while using an increased speed. This could be seen in the 'Using Alerts' section of the NinjaTrader 8 help guide linked below. From the help guide:

2) Alerts are not intended to be used with Playback while using an increased speed. Alerts are checked every 200 milliseconds, so using them in Playback could result in an alert not triggering.

Instead of using the Playback connection, you could use the Simulated Data Feed connection and the Sim 101 account to test your alerts.

See the help guide documentation below for more information.

Using Alerts: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ing_alerts.htm
Understanding How Playback Works: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...ePlaybackWorks

Let me know if I may assist further.