Alerts

[Alen]

hallo,

i have a question about alerts,

i made a strategy and i want that eSignal give me a buy alert signal, so a read some threads but i haven't find a good explanation,
i would like that eSignal gives me a signal every hour and not every second, how can i realise that??
should i use the 1 hour or the daily chart??

thank you,
alen

[ACM]

alen
In the same section of code where you execute the doLong()/doShort() commands add also the commands for the alerts you want to generate ie Alert.playSound() etc. For the required syntax see thisarticle in the EFS KnowledgeBase.
If you want an alert to sound every hour you could use the following

if(getBarState()==BARSTATE_NEWBAR){
if(hour(0)!=hour(-1)){
Alert.playSound("ding.wav");
}
}

This should trigger one alert only at the beginning of every hour
Alex

[ACM]

alen
Another way to get hourly alerts is to use the Time Alerts available in the standard Alerts tool of eSignal (see image below). Set the time for the first alert and then check the Hourly Re-Arm.
Alex