How do I make an alert that triggers once only?

• 09/28/2021 at 8:05 PM #178680
  eternalcode

  I just want an alert to trigger once after passing a certain price, then disable itself to avoid any future triggers.

  I’d like to place partial profit taking with alerts without worrying about more than one orders being placed because of price fluctuations.

  How can I do this? Thanks

  

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  09/29/2021 at 9:37 AM #178696
  Nicolas

  Unless I am mistaken, it is not possible to stop an alert automatically after its first occurrence, sorry!

  

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  09/29/2021 at 7:04 PM #178740
  eternalcode

  I’m trying to think of using multiple conditions as a workaround.

  So far I’ve come up with:
  c1 = a close of the current 15m bar above a drawn price line, c2 = before a certain date & time.

  It’s not ideal as there can still be multiple 15m closes before that time, if I’m not around to catch the first. Can I do anything better?

  

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  10/03/2021 at 10:06 AM #178961
  Eric

  Use a binary indicator (cross over/under zero)

  1 the condition you use (c1)

  -1 something that never happens (c2)

  // Detection donk D5T = HIGHEST[5](HIGH)[1] c1 = CLOSE > D5T // Detection donk D15B = LOWEST[15](LOW)[1] c2 = LOW < D15B IF c1 THEN res = 1 ELSIF c2 THEN res = -1 ENDIF return res as "DONK BINARY"

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  // Detection donk D5T = HIGHEST[5](HIGH)[1] c1 = CLOSE > D5T   // Detection donk D15B = LOWEST[15](LOW)[1] c2 = LOW < D15B   IF c1 THEN res = 1 ELSIF c2 THEN res = -1 ENDIF   return res as "DONK BINARY"

   

  

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  08/06/2022 at 1:32 AM #198605
  ang2v

  Has code above been backtested?  Considering using a tick timeframe to buy a certain price and set a certain range at open.  That’s not to say that same price won’t be hit again.  Would it be likely given the extreme volatility at open?  How instantaneous are the triggers?  Is best option to disable the alert once executed either manually otherwise surely this could be coded.

  

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