How to get an alert

[averyhorton]

THAT DIDN'T WORK

SNAP SHOT ONE ATTACHED

[averyhorton]

SNAP SHOT 2 ATTACHED

SORRY but I don't know how to include the snapshot in here

[JayF]

Avery,

In your Advanced Chart, you have your Time Template in "Dynamic" mode. This means that the amount of data loaded is relative to the amount of data displayed in the chart. Your Standard Chart is only set for two days of data. Because the data sets are different, so are the Linear Regression Channels.

To adjust the Advanced Chart to use only two days of data, you need to use Time Templates. Information on setting up Time Templates can be found here.

[averyhorton]

THANK YOU

Yes, I switched it and now after setting the std dev = 3 it seems to work pretty good for most stocks.

I am mainly concerned about the lower LR being close to but greater than the lower LR on the Basic Chart.

Thanks again

[averyhorton]

LIN REG STILL NOT CLOSE

I know this is probably getting old, but please have mercy on a rookie esignal user.

The Basic Chart Window's Linear Regression gives a deadly accurate picture of a stock's price trend.

If you buy off the lower LR with a confirmation of RSI, you will make money over 90% of the time.

But since you can't set alerts/pop ups from the basic chart, I have to use the Advanced Chart.

If anyone has a suggestion, I would be very appreciative.

Thanking You in Advance.

[JayF]

Avery,

We went over this in chat on Tuesday, but it looks like more detail is needed. There are differences between the data on a Standard Chart and the data on an Advanced Chart, and one of the big differences is "Zero Volume Bars".

A Zero Volume Bar is a space that is created along the x-axis of a chart when no trades occur within that timeframe. Standard Charts display Zero Volume Bars, while Advanced Charts do not. Below is a comparison between a 1 minute chart of SONS. The green arrow is pointing to a Zero Volume Bar... notice the space? In the Advanced Chart, there is no space there, and the bars are compressed together.



Because of this difference, perfect alignment of Linear Regression Channel when comparing Standard and Advanced charts is not possible when there is the presence of even one Zero Volume Bar along the time frame of the channel. Effectively, very high volume stocks that have little or no Zero Volume Bars will align, while lower volume stocks get dramatically different relative to the number of Zero Volume Bars. Below is an example of the misalignment with SONS, and showing the region that is compressed causing the discrepancy.



We do have the suggestion of adding Zero Volume Bars to the Advanced chart on our list, and hope to have this done within the next few releases of eSignal.

[averyhorton]

thanks

Thanks for taking the time and effort to respond.

How do you get multiple chart pictures in your reply?

[averyhorton]

Price display in alerts

I would like to display the price of the stock in my alerts... but I can't figure it out...

It is simple, right?

Alert.addToList(getSymbol(), "< 26 EMA", Color.black, Color.red);

If SONS is $2.99

then I want the alert to display

$2.99 < 26 EMA

But when I add in "close()", I get an error!

Thanks again.

[JayF]

Re: thanks

Originally posted by averyhorton
Thanks for taking the time and effort to respond.

How do you get multiple chart pictures in your reply?

I uploaded the pictures to my File Share folder I use for Community Posts, and then used the "IMG" button to insert the URL of the pictures.

[JayF]

Re: Price display in alerts

Originally posted by averyhorton
I would like to display the price of the stock in my alerts... but I can't figure it out...

It is simple, right?

Alert.addToList(getSymbol(), "< 26 EMA", Color.black, Color.red);

If SONS is $2.99

then I want the alert to display

$2.99 < 26 EMA

But when I add in "close()", I get an error!

Thanks again.

You will want to concatenate the price to the beginning using the '+'. Here's an example....

Alert.addToList(getSymbol(), close() + " < 26 EMA", Color.black, Color.red);

[CAS1]

A quick question...I'm trying to get this to display the normal candlestick defaulted colors on any of the bars that are not a signal. So the onAction1, onAction2 are fine as is.... but onAction3 reads:

function onAction3() {
setPriceBarColor(Color.RGB(0,0,0));
vLastAlert = 3;


Which turns any bar that is not a signal black. I can't seem to figure out how to tell this to leave the bars the default candle colors set in the chart properties.

thanks,

cas

PS....this is on the linreg3b.efs that was posted earlier in this thread

[dloomis]

function onAction3() {
//setPriceBarColor(Color.RGB(0,0,0));
vLastAlert = 3;

will negate the effect of onaction3

[CAS1]

Yes, I tried that...it turns all of the candles white, rather than defaulting back to the green/red candle setting in the edit studies of the chart.


cas

[dloomis]

do you have

setColorPriceBars( true );

in preMain?

[ACM]

cas

If you want to negate the effect of anAction3() as David suggested you will still need to define a default color in preMain() as there is none.
The efs paints the bars thereby overriding the default red/green hence you need to establish some color for when the conditions 1 and 2 are not true. You can either do that by inserting
setDefaultPriceBarColor(Color.yourcolor);
in preMain() or by setting the color in onAction3().

This explains why I later provided a modification to the formula so that it would not paint the bars but draw triangles on the top and bottom of the price chart.

Alex