Message Alert TOO long .. Shorten plz

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One of my favorite indicators/TOS studies that I use for the basis of some of my strategies is the ATR trailing stop. I am trying to find a way to generate a scan that would give me results of a recent change in this indicator. Meaning it has switched from Buy to Sell or Sell to Buy. In a perfect world I would then be able to setup alerts based on this change and in a dream world be able to setup an alert to when price is within (X) distance of the current ATR trailing stop buy or sell. Ok, that was a mouthful. Any help would be appreciated. THANKS!
 
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Shaco said:
The alert in the Message Center is too long. Is there a way to shorten this? Example of original alert:

CHART ALERT 5 d 15m chart for TSLA
ScriptName (3, 2, 0.07) Breakout

Would like to be shorten:

15m TSLA ScriptName Breakout

Thank you for your help.
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Those numbers above (3, 2, 0.07) are inputs in the script. Inputs come in handy if you want to change dependent parameters quickly.

If you go edit sources, delete the inputs. (Be aware you may have to edit a lot more in the source code).

Even though TOS allows you to go back to previous versions, Make sure to BACK UP THE CODE BEFORE deleting inputs, just in case.

This is how I truncated my alerts from my custom studies.

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10 y D chart for LVS...
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How do you prevent the extra text from appearing in alert messages?

I also have a problem of alerts being triggered for stocks that I looked prior instead of keeping it to exclusively to the current chart that I'm looking at.
 

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Mr_Wheeler said:
I also have a problem of alerts being triggered for stocks that I looked prior instead of keeping it to exclusively to the current chart that I'm looking at.
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Alerts are running on the TDA servers. TDA has no idea which of your charts you may be currently perusing.
The study alerts will trigger for ALL charts currently populating your app.
Chart and scan alerts will trigger whether, you have any charts open.
read more:
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/answers-to-commonly-asked-questions.6006/#post-58010

To have less verbiage in your alert:
https://usethinkscript.com/threads/message-alert-too-long-shorten-plz.8117/#post-77025
 
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