Thinkscript Tip: Alert Code Block for Think or Swim

Here’s a block of code that I am going to be implementing in scripts in future. It’s a generic alert configuration code. It assumes that you have another line in your code that defines what the alert trigger is, like so:

def alerttrigger = high>high[1];

The line above says I want an alert if the bar’s high is above the last bar’s high, for example. You can replace it with whatever you want to be alerted about.

Here’s the alert code:

#
# Alerts:
#
def alerttrigger = 1; #replace the 1 with your definition
# BLOCK CODE BELOW
input alerttext = “Alert Text”;
input UseAlerts = {false, default true};
input AlertType = {default “BAR”, “ONCE”, “TICK”};
def at=AlertType;
input AlertSound = {“Bell”, “Chimes”, default “Ding”, “NoSound”, “Ring”};
alert(alerttrigger AND UseAlerts, alerttext, if at==1 then Alert.ONCE else if at==2 then Alert.TICK else Alert.BAR, AlertSound);

To use it in your scripts, change the “def alerttrigger = 1;” line in your code to what you want to alert about, and then drop the entire code block at the end of your script file. Instant configurable alerts!

Tags: alerts