Could we be given the ability to send an alert, like the alerts we currently get, except that it will send an alert when a strategy indicates to open or close a position? The strategies can already indicate this on the chart, so hoping it won't be to difficult to add this function.
Hi all, thanks for starting this topic and for suggesting and upvoting this feature. It makes total sense, we understand why you need it and we have decided to implement it. I have changed the status of this topic to reflect this.
We are already looking at the requirements, but the implementation wont be soon and is part of the 2019 plan. Doing this right is complicated and we need to upgrade the strategy’s calculation engine first, before we can start working on the implementation of alerts for strategies.
I will update this topic again as soon as there is new information to share.
I can't believe that this doesn't have this feature.. I just subscribed to pro expecting this would be the case, I won't be renewing my membership until this simple functionality is enabled on strategies. This is nonsense.
this is so important, and you cant do it!?
if you want more premium buyers, just enable this for them only. every will buy and be happy. but it should be there! no joke.
and you have to be able to auto-trade with strategy with your supported brokers like forex. because if i am using strategy, which is calculated. i just lose few minutes every time i have an alert. because i have to get email first. spot it, read it. connect to broker page or program or phone. find my trade and make action. and by the time we have lots of pips going against us. why you are doing it? if you make it, you will be number one in the world of trading!!! but you just standing there and do nothing at all. it's so lame... i can pay you pip each time i trade with auto-trader and with strategy. just think how much money you can earn. millions! and you just standing there.
Not being able to add alerts to strategies is a major inconvenience for me. Why should I have to choose between getting alerts, and being able to backtest? As it is, I have to keep copying the same code back and forth between a strategy version and a study version, which I manually keep in sync, so I can have my alerts, but backtest my strategy as I work on it.
Also, I sometimes use the Autoview extension for Chrome to algorithmically live trade cryptocurrency using my TradingView scripts. This requires alerts in order to work. Therefore, I need both alerts and backtesting, and have to copy back and forth between two versions as described above.
By the way, it's frustrating that drawbacks and limitations like this don't seem to be documented anywhere, and are only discovered as we go and things mysteriously fail to work as expected and as described in the documentation.
Alerts are pretty useless unless they can be implemented into a strategy, why should we be tethered to charts all day long waiting for a strategy entry/exit to fire when we could just be alerted when the time comes.
In a time of automation, it blows my mind that this feature is not available in strategies without having to re-engineer a study to make it work, if it can even be re-coded to work in the first place.
It seems like its been requested for over a year. I like TV but for me its a subscription difference of getting Pro rather than a Premium because you guys do not have this feature.
You guys are missing out on a lot of money.
I have the quick and easy fix to this issue. I think TradingView needs to be notified about this quick fix. Email them this fix now!
We need a "CUSTOM text" field added to the alert box that will allow an alert to trigger based on "custom text" found on the chart.
The alert will fire when the chart display's a text of your choice. IN an example, I will add custom text to my comment="Buy - myCUSTOMCODE" and add "myCUSTOMCODE" to the text field and this will Trigger an alert.
This honestly seems like a quick and easy fix. They should be able to get this done in a week. Will they? Probably not but we can hope so!
We need the ability to get subscribe to alerts that trigger when there are trades in a strategy.
I've developed several strategies that I actually trade on. Some are quite complex and since strategies don't support alerts I have to create a companion studies to get alerts on real time trade execution in my strategies. This requires me to rewrite the entire strategy namespace since it's not available in the study scripts so that I can get alerts when profit targets are hit and also when stop losses are hit, etc. This is not always easy and requires a lot of additional coding and testing.
I've spent countless hours programming and maintaining alert scripts that attempt to match my strategy trades. Plus every time I update my strategy I have to update a more complicated study to get alerts.
It's frustrating having to maintain separate code for strategies and studies.
Yes, I would also like to be able to do this. It seems like it shouldn't be too difficult. Can you please add this?
I would like this ability as I was not able to accomplish a custom alert in pinescript using an indicator as I was not able to mimic the open close strategy functionality in order to reset my alert condition accurately. Also since I was just highlighting a particular candle the alert condition I created did not even show up as an option in the create alert dialog.
Thank you for your suggestion. At the moment we don’t have this function on TradingView but will consider it in the future.
2019??? c'mon. hack it into pinescript for the love of god. even as a setting on buy/sell triggers in strategies, that's what most people need.
That was my point. If we cannot get the code to mimic and trigger alert, at least allow SMS/email alerts on open/close of positions. While it is reasonable this may be a heavier lift for TV than it appears, it has been a couple years now and they do not seem as accommodatingly nimble as they once were.
However, they are still a great service and at least still listening.
That was my point. If we cannot get the code to mimic and trigger alert, at least allow SMS/email alerts on open/close of positions. While it is reasonable this may be a heavier lift for TV than it appears, it has been a couple years now and they do not seem as accommodatingly nimble as they once were. However, they are still a great service and at least still listening.
You're gonna lose customers if another competitor does what you do but provides what we (the customers) want. Discount to upgrade early sounds enticing.... but you are not getting my bucks for the premium subscription unless I know for sure this will be implemented.... try giving me a better offer to wait out.... else it is only money wasted because I will not be able to get the utility I want out of it.
In 1 or 2 years later? Is it worthing paying for a subscription for 2 years without using it? That's a bad deal. Might as well NOT pay for any subscription until you have that essential feature!!
I will probably be saving money!
You're gonna lose customers if another competitor does what you do but provides what we (the customers) want. Discount to upgrade early sounds enticing.... but you are not getting my bucks for the premium subscription unless I know for sure this will be implemented.... try giving me a better offer to wait out.... else it is only money wasted because I will not be able to get the utility I want out of it. In 1 or 2 years later? Is it worthing paying for a subscription for 2 years without using it? That's a bad deal. Might as well NOT pay for any subscription until you have that essential feature!! I will probably be saving money!
2 years to implement this is really not acceptable. I guess I'll wait, but I'm jumping at the first alternative that will actually alert me for my strategies.
I agree please add this functionality to TV!!
What is even worse is that there is no way to save inputs to file. I could tolerate it if from the strategy tester, you could save all your settings, and then load them in the study as long as the study has the same inputs. But no, not even that is available.
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Wow, thank you! That was quite helpful! TradingView support just gave me a dead-end non-answer.
Guess what.... yep... still waiting.
Makes paying for the subscription pointless.
Guess what.... yep... still waiting. Makes paying for the subscription pointless.
Thanks, you reminded me to cancel auto-renew!
Just in time, will look elsewhere.
Thanks, you reminded me to cancel auto-renew! Just in time, will look elsewhere.
Me too, had auto-renew on, just turned that puppy off. Thanks for commenting to remind me why TV is useless for me.
The alertcondition() function should be customised to cater for requirement when there is a need to indicate in alert text to remind us the total quantity (lot) and to turn the position.
The text box does not allow to indicate total quantity for different conditions, in this case there is no alert to enter sell additional 1 lot after exit previous position at the same candle.
Alertcondition() in indicator or study script is suggested to indicate the quantity (lot) according to customised condition.
This is important for indicator script, alert text to email/sms/pop up windows, because only limited broker has autoview function.
The alertcondition() function should be customised to cater for requirement when there is a need to indicate in alert text to remind us the total quantity (lot) and to turn the position. For example during uptrend buy 1 lot, then during reversal close the long position by sell 1 lot and at the same time enter sell 1 lot because of downtrend. Current scenario is i just indicate in the alert text : (1) enter buy 1 lot when trigger the buy condition, and then (2) sell 1 lot when meet the sell condition The text box does not allow to indicate total quantity for different conditions, in this case there is no alert to enter sell additional 1 lot after exit previous position at the same candle. Alertcondition() in indicator or study script is suggested to indicate the quantity (lot) according to customised condition. This is important for indicator script, alert text to email/sms/pop up windows, because only limited broker has autoview function. Thank you for your attention.
Please, point me to some topic to debug my script to alerts in study.
The strategy works and study plots nicely signals on chart, however the signals does not go through via SMS email.
I have one bot working nicely, i did same strategy and study to another pairs, i see back-test everything is nice strategy=study, but the signals does not work, they just do not triggering.
Please, point me to some topic to debug my script to alerts in study. The strategy works and study plots nicely signals on chart, however the signals does not go through via SMS email. What may be wrong? I have one bot working nicely, i did same strategy and study to another pairs, i see back-test everything is nice strategy=study, but the signals does not work, they just do not triggering. Any advice will be much appreciated!
After 10 months, could you give us some updates? thanks.
hi.. where can i find someone to make a simple indicator/script? this to mark the green candlestick after 2 days red..
Any update ? If there is one thing you can do to improve it is that functionality !
This is a *must* feature, without it having strategies is near pointless!
Will the Alerts be implemented into the Stock Screener as well?
I'm hoping that any script accepted through Pine Editor (either a strategy or alertcondition) can be added to the Stock Screener.
Will the Alerts be implemented into the Stock Screener as well? I'm hoping that any script accepted through Pine Editor (either a strategy or alertcondition) can be added to the Stock Screener. Thanks!
It's hilarious how this thread started in 2015 and this is still not implemented. Yet, they wanna be taken seriously.
You present your service as high-quality, but in reality you have been working on one of the most important update for more than a year?
still no change? i can't trade because one simple change in the code that you guys don't want to implement?
Any update to the Strategy alert feature??!