sending email continuously

[asmmbillah]

Hi, I am generating a signal within onmarketdata() and sending an email. But it is continuously without stoping. I am following the below:

private bool doitonce = false;
private bool generateAlert = false:

Within onmarketdata()
{
if (IsFirstTickOfBar)
{
if (generateAlert)
{
generateAlert = false;
doitonce = true;
}
else if (doitonce)
{
generateAlert = true;
doitonce = false;
}
else if (!generateAlert)
{
generateAlert = true;
doitonce = true;
}
}
}

And then within OnBarUpdate()
{
if (condition && generateAlert && doitonce)
{
Print("Send email");
//SendMail(EmailAddress, "Trade ", "Entry");
doitonce = false;
}
}

can you advise on how to avoid continuously sending email, I just needed it to fire once?

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello asmmbillah,

Thanks for your post.

I would suggest doing your bool resets under the control of OnBarUpdate() instead of OnMarketUpdate.

In OnBarUpdate() you could further control how often you would accept an alert.