Adding an Alert to Strategy "AddOrder" - ToS

[JMW]

I've been playing around a bit with strategies in ToS and I was hoping this was a rather easy question. Along with printing on the chart, I'd like to add an audio alert to when it's printed, as well.

Based off the following AddOrder code, is there somewhere in this syntax I could add the alert option?

AddOrder(OrderType.SELL, trading_time and (exit) and (exitconditions()) , tickcolor = Color.WHITE, arrowcolor = Color.WHITE, name = "SELL POINT ENTRY");

I have a different line to "Alert(" under the same conditions, but its rather messy and doesn't seem to be working on close conditions - only entries.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

 

[BenTen]

but its rather messy and doesn't seem to be working on close conditions - only entries

So it worked but not as expected? Can you clarify?

The easiest method would be to use the same condition in the Alert() function, which you did.

 

[JMW]

I think the issue being that I might have an open stragety order (BUT_TO_OPEN) triggered, but that then triggers again. The painting on the chart only paints a single open, as it might have opened a few bars back but the alerts keep firing off.

My issue is the alerts constantly triggering when the price is bouncing around a range.

 

[halcyonguy]

I've been playing around a bit with strategies in ToS and I was hoping this was a rather easy question. Along with printing on the chart, I'd like to add an audio alert to when it's printed, as well.

Based off the following AddOrder code, is there somewhere in this syntax I could add the alert option?

AddOrder(OrderType.SELL, trading_time and (exit) and (exitconditions()) , tickcolor = Color.WHITE, arrowcolor = Color.WHITE, name = "SELL POINT ENTRY");

I have a different line to "Alert(" under the same conditions, but its rather messy and doesn't seem to be working on close conditions - only entries.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

have to use alert function to have alerts. they aren't in any other function.

if using the same formula more than once, set it to a variable.

def long_open = trading_time and (exit) and (exitconditions()) ;

AddOrder(OrderType.SELL, long_open,...

alert(long_open, ....

https://tlc.thinkorswim.com/center/reference/thinkScript/Functions/Others/Alert

 

[halcyonguy]

I think the issue being that I might have an open stragety order (BUT_TO_OPEN) triggered, but that then triggers again. The painting on the chart only paints a single open, as it might have opened a few bars back but the alerts keep firing off.

My issue is the alerts constantly triggering when the price is bouncing around a range.

you need to create another variable , that is true during a trade, call it long.

something like this....

long = if sell then 0 # reset
else if long[1] then 1 # keep true
else if buy then 1 # trigger
else long[1] # hold

then another variable that looks for long to go from false to true, and use that as a buy trigger. then it will only trigger the first time.

buy1 = !long[1] and long;

 

[JMW]

Thank you very much! I will give this a thought, I'm a bit dense when it comes to ThinkScript code, but I believe I understand what you're getting at.

Much appreciated it.