Setting alerts on Metatrader?!?

[ahefner33]

Hello all!

I have a question about setting alerts on Metatrader. Is there anyway to set an alert, such as send you a email or some sort of notification, when you have a cross in one of your indicators. ( EMA's) I heard someone speak of this somewhere else that they had this setup but I do not believe they were using Metatrader. Thanks in advance.

ahefner33

[topgun]

I'm trying to figure out how to do that myself . Most of the good trades I see occur between 12am - 4am (Eastern) and I can't sit in front of my machine waiting for that to happen. I will if I have too so how does everyone else do it, sleep all day and stay up all night.

Topgun

Originally Posted by ahefner33

Hello all!

I have a question about setting alerts on Metatrader. Is there anyway to set an alert, such as send you a email or some sort of notification, when you have a cross in one of your indicators. ( EMA's) I heard someone speak of this somewhere else that they had this setup but I do not believe they were using Metatrader. Thanks in advance.

ahefner33

[ramrocket]

Originally Posted by ahefner33

Is there anyway to set an alert, such as send you a email or some sort of notification, when you have a cross in one of your indicators. ( EMA's) ahefner33

Usually indicators are pre fabricated code in your broker's trading platform. This code cannot be modified to trigger custom alerts like sending email, text'ing cell phone, etc. The way to do this is to code a Trading System that encapsulates the indicators e.g. EMAs and the logic to trigger your custom alert e.g. crossing of EMAs, etc. I use alert in my system via Trading System.

With MetaTrader I cannot help you. With VTTrader I can help you.

[topgun]

I think I figured it out. If you go into the terminal window (View terminal or CTRL-T), then you can create customizeable alerts to email you. Of course send an email to your cell phone number would be my best bet. I'll have to keep messing with it. It looks like you can only send an alert when the price hits a certain level which is useless unless you plan on placing a market order at a fixed price which is what a limit order is for. There is probably a way to code it into an expert advisor to send an alert when MA's cross, RSI is a a certain level, etc.. but you would have to know your programming. I will let you know if I figure it out but maybe somebody else knows.

[ahefner33]

Originally Posted by ramrocket

Usually indicators are pre fabricated code in your broker's trading platform. This code cannot be modified to trigger custom alerts like sending email, text'ing cell phone, etc. The way to do this is to code a Trading System that encapsulates the indicators e.g. EMAs and the logic to trigger your custom alert e.g. crossing of EMAs, etc. I use alert in my system via Trading System.

With MetaTrader I cannot help you. With VTTrader I can help you.

Thanks for clarifying that. I have not used VTTrader and I am still still learning all the aspects too MT, so Im going to try to stick with that. Thanks for your help though!

[ahefner33]

Originally Posted by topgun_68

I think I figured it out. If you go into the terminal window (View terminal or CTRL-T), then you can create customizeable alerts to email you. Of course send an email to your cell phone number would be my best bet. I'll have to keep messing with it. It looks like you can only send an alert when the price hits a certain level which is useless unless you plan on placing a market order at a fixed price which is what a limit order is for. There is probably a way to code it into an expert advisor to send an alert when MA's cross, RSI is a a certain level, etc.. but you would have to know your programming. I will let you know if I figure it out but maybe somebody else knows.

Thanks. When I get some free time, I will mess around with it a little bit to see if I can figure something out. Programming isn't really my forte but I would love to be able to have this feature. Thanks again and keep me updated if you find something!

ahefner33

[ahefner33]

I have a question about some technical issues on MT4. Is there anyway you can set a timer on the charts that will show you the time left on each candlestick for that periodicity? Thanks!

ahefner33

[topgun]

I'm not quite sure what your asking. If your on a 1 minute chart then each candlestick will end in 1 min intervals. The same for 5min, 15min, 30min, etc...

Originally Posted by ahefner33

I have a question about some technical issues on MT4. Is there anyway you can set a timer on the charts that will show you the time left on each candlestick for that periodicity? Thanks!

ahefner33

[ahefner33]

Originally Posted by topgun_68

I'm not quite sure what your asking. If your on a 1 minute chart then each candlestick will end in 1 min intervals. The same for 5min, 15min, 30min, etc...

Sorry for not being more informative on my question. In the OHLC, there is a countdown of time left until the close of that candle.(Up in the upper left hand corner.) Here is a example of what I am talking about from one of Elangs charts.

http://www.babypips.com/forums/attac...tem-gbpusd.gif

[ahefner33]

Originally Posted by stockwet

Here's a link to a MetaTrader expert that does what you are wondering. When the EMA's cross an email gets sent out. Sorry, I have to link to it since I can't upload MQ4 files here - Forex Clarity

Also, here's a tutorial on how to configure email or text messages in metatrader: email2.

And, since you're pretty new to MetaTrader, here's a tutorial on working with expert files, such as the one I'm posting here - Experts.com - The Premiere Online Experts Directory.

Regards,

stockwet

Thanks. Thats what I was looking for. Reps to you!