Alerts

dhall6938

GM. I am trying to save yet another scan into the alert system. I have tried repeatedly since yesterday afternoon. Have tried several times this morning as well. As a test, I also tried to set up an alert for another scan and it worked fine. There must be something wrong with my scan, but I can't figure out what is wrong. The syntax checks out. I am not over the maximum number of alerts. I am well below the maximum characters allowed. I don't know what else to check. Do you have any ideas that I can check?

dhall6938

I may have figured it out. I think it must be a syntax problem. I dismantled the scan and re assembled it one piece at a time. After I had completely reassembled it, it seems to work fine and it can be saved into the alert system as a new alert. Fingers crossed

dhall6938

I was wrong. After dismantling it would save to an alert. However, if I close out of alerts and then go back to alerts and open it up, nothing is saved. It's as if this particular alert will allow the number of characters as the scan will allow.

markd

Either you are doing something wrong without realizing it, or something is corrupted. If you know how to empty your browser cache, do that.

Delete all versions of the scan and alert and log out of Stockcharts. Also close your browser. Then log back in and start over with a completely new scan, a completely new alert and completely new names.

dhall6938

Thanks. I have copied the scan into an alert several times before, so I know that it has worked fine. Yesterday, I deleted one of the previous alerts and then set it up again and it worked fine and still is this morning. I said all of that to say that I am not too sure that your suggestion will take care of my issue. This morning, I have tried a number of things, and I can permanently save the scan as an alert minus the very last sentence. However, if I delete one of the previous identical alerts and then set it up again, it is permanently saved. It's almost as if the first 180 alerts hold more characters.

dhall6938

I am doing something wrong definitely.

dhall6938

Thanks again for your advice. I will live with what I have now, I guess. FYI, in the initial alerts set up months ago, I was able to save the whole scan with 1621 characters left. Now, if I delete the last sentence, I can save the alert with1839 characters left. So, currently, I can save somewhere between 1839 and 1621 characters left. However, in the first alerts, I am still able to save the entire scan with 1621 characters left.

markd

I'm suggesting that the copying and pasting brings the corrupt area (which may not be visible, by the way) with it.

It appears you are safely within the character limits, so the number of characters bumping up against the limit is probably unrelated to the problem.

It is possible there is an "end of file" character, or some other character created and used by the scan interpreter that you can't see (and didn't type) embedded somewhere in your text - that would be the corruption.

I'm suggesting starting clean so you know that corruption isn't there. When you copy and paste, you can't be sure where it is, so you may or may not be copy/pasting it.

dhall6938

Thank you, I had no idea

dhall6938

I ran my primary bull entry scan a couple of times today. In the morning, XLF triggered but none of the others triggered. I ran it one more time during the day and only XLF. During the last 15 minutes today, I ran it again and it triggered INDU, SPX and XLF. I have the scan set up to run every hour and it only triggered XLF this morning. If my scans are set up to notify me on the hour and the criteria does not line up until the last hour, will it trigger at the close? My guess is that if the criteria are not met until the last hour, it will not trigger or alert me, not even on the close.

markd

If you can set the scan(s) to run at a specific time, choose 3:59. It's not unusual for the day's range to expand in the last hour, sometimes in the last 5 minutes.

dhall6938

Thank you. I have not tried to set a specific time yet. I will