Still, it can be useful to have the alert text read aloud as long as you understand its quirks. For example, if you’re trading CL, the text to speech algorithm will read “CL” as “Centiliters”. Note that this can create some slightly confusing and sometimes humorous results, as the translation software can interpret the text in some unexpected ways. You can also choose Voice to enable a text-to-speech translation of the alert text. Here, you can select whether a sound is made on an alert, and which sound to play. That will bring up the follow dialog box: If you select the Use the global messaging preferences option, you can adjust the settings using the Configure button that appears to the right of the option selection. The two primary choices here are to use the global messaging preferences, or use a custom setting which applies to just this indicator. Notification Settings: This allows you to specify what happens when an alert activates. Otherwise, the “A” will remain for a longer period of time. When this checkbox is set, any alert that is active will clear the “A” from the chart at the close of the bar. This has to do with the blue letter “A” chart notification that TradeStation provides on a chart when an alert is active. Note that the Alert once per bar choice has an additional checkbox for Clear triggered alert on bar close. The preferred setting by most traders is Alert Once per bar. Note that continuously may generate a very large number of alerts all at once, so use that with care. This can be once (and only once), once per bar, and continuously.

Some other alert options that you might want to consider:Īlert Frequency: This determines how many times the alerts present themselves when the alert condition is true. (And remember, in some indicators, you may have to enable an input to allow alerts). In TradeStation, studies have alert settings that are set via the study properties’ Alerts tab, as shown here:Īlerts will not be generated if the “Enable Alert” box isn’t checked. But you can still check and verify that they’re correct, and adjust them.Įven if an input about alerts doesn’t exist, it’s possible that the indicator still generates alerts.

If that exists, then more than likely, the other settings which we’ll cover below in this article will already be set. You’ll want to make sure that’s set to enabled in order to generate alerts. It will typically appear as a True/False input.

Often times, there’s an input that controls whether alerts are generated.

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