Enabling and Disabling Alerts for a Study
Many studies have alert criteria written into them; once you enable the alert for the study, then when market activity on the last bar of the chart meets the criteria specified by the study, an alert is triggered.
Your analysis application checks for alert conditions when you first apply the study to the app. Thereafter, it will check for alert conditions when:
- The price data is updated.
- You open the workspace containing the study.
- You replace the symbol with another symbol.
VIDEO - Setting Alerts on Chart Studies
Turning alerts on or off
To quickly turn alerts on or off, right-click on the study or drawing object (in a Chart) or an study column (in RadarScreen), then select Alert from the menu and choose an alert action to enable or Disable to turn off all alerts for the selected study.
Monitoring alerts
In order to monitor alerts, make sure you enable the Update on every tick option. If not, studies are recalculated only at the close of the bar. When an alert is triggered, the details of the alert are posted to the Message Center. By default, you are also notified by means of an audible beep and an Alert Notification window. However, you can choose what type of notification you want to receive - an email message, visual alert, or sound notification. For instructions for changing the way you are notified and on how to use the Message Center to monitor your alerts, see About the TradeStation Message Center.
- Access the Studies > Edit Studies menu sequence. The Customize Studies & Strategies dialog is displayed.
- Click the Studies tab.
- Select the study to modify.
- Click Customize.
- Click the Alerts tab.
Check Enable to turn on alerts for the study or remove the check mark to turn off alerts.
See Customize Study - Alerts to set drawing object alerts.
- Click Default to use the settings as the default for all future studies of this type.
- Click OK when finished.