Alerts

[narbassi]

Jerry

 

Do you know far away we are on alerts development

 

 

Being using the product for 3 months and it is excellent

 

 

Thank you

 

 

 

 

[Jerry Medved]

it is not imminent. We have not started on it. However, it will most likely be the next major feature to be worked on

[gidielle]

Have you started?

 

with the alerts will be possible to create personal indicators and see them?

 

thx

[Jerry Medved]

I've started on alerts. I don't know what you mean - what do custom indicators have to do with it?

[gidielle]

well, with QT I can create an alert, but I cann't see it, for example:

 

If

Chaikin Money Flow * Twiggs Money Flow > 0,25

set color to lime

 

I cann't se the value of CMF*TMF  in any time, so I don't know if I'm near the alert, with a custom indicator I can

[Jerry Medved]

Paintbar stuff will be separate most likely. 

[gidielle]

thx

[gidielle]

if you need a beta tester only for the alerts I'm here!

 

bye

[Jerry Medved]

.  Not there yet

[gidielle]

weeks or mounthes?

[Jerry Medved]

probably more than a few weeks. I am working on the alert stuff now.

[vrtrader64]

Some requests, related to alerts - please ensure the design is sufficiently generalized to enable the following features w/o too much re-tooling of the code

 

1) alerts based on conditions in QuoteGrid  (e.g. bid>=ask; BidSize / AskSize above/below threshold); 

2) alerts based on conditions in L2 order book (e.g. sum of # shares at specified bid levels suddenly shrinking below a threshold)

3) capture alerts into an "alerts queue" for review by the user; when user is reviewing queued alert for a given symbol, make it easy to quickly jump to trading for the relevant symbol.

4) allow for a large number of alert conditions to be specified - do not limit to (say 10 symbols or 5 alerts overall) - I would like for alerts to be able to reach into the dozens or even hundreds, as a means to achieve order automation in the future. In this way, alerts would become events that when handled (by code) generate order changes; or new orders; or order cancellations.

 

Thanks for all the excellent work so far 

[Jerry Medved]

1) ok

2) wasn't really planning on L II alerts.  

3) will have an alert log

4) We aren't going to put any limits (others do that!?) but keep in mind that the more alert criteria is being checked, the more CPU usage will be required, so there may be practical limitations. Will see

 

Also keep in mind that he alerts will only be triggered if corresponding data is coming in.  So if you have an alert on AAPL but there are no quotes coming in on AAPL because it is in none of the portfolios, nothing will be triggered

[vrtrader64]

1) thanks

 

2) I sent you an email - I really think it would be fantastic to have access to Level2 analytics / alerts in MT.

 

3) thanks

 

4) understood that alerts would mean extra code runs on each symbol's every alert, so performance would depend on number of symbols / alerts - just hope you don't put in a conservative limit up front and; let users explore the outer bounds of what is achievable depending on data feeds, memory & CPU.

[gidielle]

will the alerts include this options?

 

- automated trading

- email alert

- facebook/twitter/skype alert

[gidielle]

The development of custom indicator is linked to alerts?

[Jerry Medved]

the options for email, facebook, etc posts  are very much tied to another sub-system that I am planning - Sharing - somewhat similar to the way Android does it.

 

As for custom indicators, depends on what it is, but there are general time constraints, so everything is somewhat tied together

[gidielle]

is it possible to have the guidelines of the alerts and custom indicators to start to program them?

[Jerry Medved]

no

[gidielle]

ok

if the custom indicators will write in the same language C of standard indicator, instead of guideline you could post a source code of an indicator, for example EMA, PV trend that are more simple, so we can study how to create a custom indicator.

[Jerry Medved]

When we make user defined alerts available, we will definitely post code for some existing indicators.

[gidielle]

Ok, I will wait. Have you an idea when it will ready?

[Jerry Medved]

nope. am working on it now, in between bug fixes.

[bcavender]

Jerry,

I wanted to check in about alerts.

We've emailed several times about mobile alerts over the years. You expressed issues about the difficulty of software issues they present.  

ThIs thread goes back to 2014 where you still seemed open to the idea, but we are still not able to get MT alerts out of the room.

I've been very impressed by your innovative work since the QuoteTracker years and I would be quite happy to be a paying customer again if only I wasn't forced to sit in the same room with the computer. I think there are a number of swing/longer term traders in your target market that would appreciate the mobility also  

Is there ANY way that you can give us at least ONE way to get mobile alerts out?

Thank you!

Bruce

[Jerry Medved]

You picked an old thread.  Mobile alerts have been available since Jan 4, 2019.  In the alert properties, you can now select SHARE as one of the options, and then select SMS or Email as the share method