Tick crossing zero alert

[shaeffer]

I am trying to get an alert (via the Triggered Alert List) when $tickq crosses above or below zero on my 5 minute chart.

I'm not even sure now what efs's I merged to get the one below, but something is wrong because I get the "crossing up above zero" alert often (even when its crossing down), but never the "crossing below zero" alert.

Any ideas where I've gone wrong?

Thanks
shaeffer

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello shaeffer,

Add the following global variable and change your if statements to reference vTick1 instead of vTick,-1.

var vTick1 = getValue("Close", -1);

[shaeffer]

Hi Jason,

I entered your global variable suggestion into line#3 (I thought I read that global variables have to be outside main or premain), but got an error "getValue() can only be called in main()". So I moved it into main, and get no errors, but also no Triggered Alert.

Did I enter this wrong?

Regards
shaeffer

[shaeffer]

Another weird thing happening is that the top lighter green background extends further to the right than the other background colors? Any idea why?

[shaeffer]

On a whim, I eliminated setComputeOnClose(), which seems to have solved both problems. The alert now triggers, and the background colors now line up on the right side.

I guess it was conflicting with the getValue("Close") commands.