Possible to condition alerts to only trigger during market hours?

[Darth Tradicus]

Hey guys, as I have been actively trading while at the same time learning and testing to complete how I want to go about it, I often leave my screens up all day. But hearing the sporadic dings, bells and rings while I'm going about my day or trying to work on other stuff in the foreground, I swear is going to make me develop a nervous tick. Is there a way to condition an alert to only sound off when the market is open? How would I alter, say, an alert like this:

Alert(cross_above, "RSI LONG", Alert.Bar, Sound.BELL);

 

[SleepyZ]

Hey guys, as I have been actively trading while at the same time learning and testing to complete how I want to go about it, I often leave my screens up all day. But hearing the sporadic dings, bells and rings while I'm going about my day or trying to work on other stuff in the foreground, I swear is going to make me develop a nervous tick. Is there a way to condition an alert to only sound off when the market is open? How would I alter, say, an alert like this:

Alert(cross_above, "RSI LONG", Alert.Bar, Sound.BELL);

Adding a true/false (1/0) def of rthrs to the alert should work.

def rthrs = SecondsFromTime(0930) >= 0 and SecondsFromTime(1600) < 1600;
Alert(rthrs and cross_above, "RSI LONG", Alert.BAR, Sound.Bell);

 

[Darth Tradicus]

Adding a true/false (1/0) def of rthrs to the alert should work.

Ran into another similar issue. I've been creating a few of my own candle pattern indicators and the way a candle fluctuates as it's being created causes the alert to trigger on almost every candle in it's first few seconds as it's taking shape. Would it be possible to delay an alert to go off, say, after 1 minute or later has passed on a two minute candle? Basically look for conditions after a certain amt of time?

I'm using that last bit of code you provided ALOT by the way, it's a life-saver!

 

[SleepyZ]

Ran into another similar issue. I've been creating a few of my own candle pattern indicators and the way a candle fluctuates as it's being created causes the alert to trigger on almost every candle in it's first few seconds as it's taking shape. Would it be possible to delay an alert to go off, say, after 1 minute or later has passed on a two minute candle? Basically look for conditions after a certain amt of time?

I'm using that last bit of code you provided ALOT by the way, it's a life-savor!

You can set the alert to trigger after the 2m bar closes. The code below has both the cross at the 2m bar and after it closes. The alert is set to after the 2m bar closes. Bubbles were added so you can visually see the gray bubble when the cross occurs and the yellow when after the previous bar closes, when the alert then sounds.

You could also add some other condition to your cross, such as, close>high[1] to try to confirm the cross before sounding the alert.

We do not have access to smaller timeframes than the chart timeframe, so we could not use a certain amount of time less than 2m in your case.

def rthrs = SecondsFromTime(0930) >= 0 and SecondsFromTime(1600) < 1600;

plot cross_above  = reference rsi() crosses above 30;
plot cross_above1 = reference rsi()[1] crosses above 30;
addchartBubble(cross_above, low, cross_above + "\n" + cross_above1, color.gray, no);
addchartBubble(cross_above1, low, cross_above + "\n" + cross_above1, color.yellow, no);

Alert(condition = rthrs and cross_above1, text = "RSI LONG", sound = Sound.Bell, "alert type" = Alert.BAR);

 

[Darth Tradicus]

You can set the alert to trigger after the 2m bar closes. The code below has both the cross at the 2m bar and after it closes. The alert is set to after the 2m bar closes. Bubbles were added so you can visually see the gray bubble when the cross occurs and the yellow when after the previous bar closes, when the alert then sounds.

You could also add some other condition to your cross, such as, close>high[1] to try to confirm the cross before sounding the alert.

We do not have access to smaller timeframes than the chart timeframe, so we could not use a certain amount of time less than 2m in your case.

Thats a good idea adding an additional condition- I didn't think of it before, but I found Mashume's tallCandles code and I think I can change it to trigger when candle is at least 1/2 avg size or something... that might help to keep a lot of these alerts from triggering in the first few seconds of candle formation. Thanks again