Alert Trigger

dgorghuber

I am trying to figure out why this alert would trigger right at the open this morning? The alert code is as follows:

[[symbol = '$XLKADP']

AND [EMA(10) > 30]

OR [EMA(10) < -30]]

This specific symbol is an EOD update, so as of yesterday's close, according to what I am looking at it should have not registered because the 10 day EMA is at 1.16 ... I am running this continuously all day, any occurrences above '0', and continuous.

markd

You need brackets around your "or" conditions. As written, only one condition in your scan needs to be true to return a result. Symbol = $XLKADP is true if that symbol exists, so it would trigger the alert.

What you want is:

[symbol = '$XLKADP']

AND
[
[EMA(10) > 30]

OR

[EMA(10) < -30]
]


Now, two of the three conditions have to be true to get a result - the symbol exists, and its ema is one or the other.

You don't have to use that format (separate lines for the "or" brackets), but it does clarify things.

dgorghuber

Awesome, thank you very much. I understand now!