Quote from mokwit:
Maxpi, appreciate your suggestions, however, without wishing to sound ungrateful for your help.............
1) You cannot write a code solution to have a realtime alert alert only once. Global variable solutions such as Alertonce top out at a few hundred symbols alerts and then stop alerting once ( - is hypertraders order automation software a solution?).
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I think you can over come this by some clever coding... you clear a variable at the start then set it if you get an alert and use it as a condition for the alert... I don't think the hypertrader stuff is up and running, they have not upgraded their site since 2004...
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I agree it should be possible but so far I have not found it, nor it seems has anyone else - maybe it can't be done and that is why the alertonce funtion was coded into TS8. here are a couple that look like they should work but don't.........
example 1)
If CheckAlert and BarStatus(1) = 2 then
Alert("Specified Criteria Found!");
Example2 )
use a simple flag to stop repeating the alerts.
E.g.
//Declare our flag variable
Vars: RaiseAlert(False);
//Reset our flag every day
If date<>date[1] then RaiseAlert = True;
//If conditions are met then send an alert, but only if the
// alert hasn't already been set off today
If {MyAlertCriteria} and RaiseAlert then Begin
Alert("xxx");
RaiseAlert = False;
end;
2) If ther is a way of sorting alerts in TS2k Radarscreen by time I have not found it - there needs to be a function 'alerttime' maybe this is codeable.
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Just code it yourself. Radarscreen will sort by whatever variable you plot... it's been years since I worked with it, I can't get more specific than that
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I may be wrong but as far as I can tell there is no Easylanguage equivelent of e.g EXCEL's TIME NOW
If Neoticker tops out at 200 symbols it is a non starter - i am running 5000 worldwide at pilot level and looking for software and vendor solutions for 25,000 plus - may have to break down to 5000 per box.
I didn't know that Tenfore had a satellite feed.. is that a one way feed where they just blast everything at you? DTN Satellite blasts the entire set of markets to a box and you tell the box which ones you want. They stopped doing the stocks a while back though due to bandwidth constrictions...
As far as I can tell Tenfore Satellite blasts all tickers from US Europe and Asia markets - footprint for satellite as far as I recall is Europe only. If you can stand institutional pricing Comstock covers all markets and their satellite covers US Europe and Asia - whether that extends as far as Australasia I don't know. My advice if anyone wants it is to subscribe through itservice.net as you pay no more get an extra layer off support from them - I have found them to be very helpful and knowledgeable.
Hypertrader are alive and kicking - they just have not upgraded their website since they stopped offering their connection software for free - you can buy by contacting them direct and while they are not adding any new data feeds they are keeping their committment to the installed base by writing new versions if a data vendor makes changes that affect their software. Also a reccomended company in terms of their support.
