Alerts

dhall6938

Are you aware of any way to re-set an alert to trigger again during the same day? If it helps, my alerts told me to take a profit, and I did. Then I also got an alert to get back into the same position, but it went the wrong way and the alert did not warn me that my stop was hit because it had already triggered today. Thanks

markd

I don't use alerts so I don't know if this will work.

The documentation says alerts trigger only once a day. So you need a workaround.

You could try this. Keep an 'offline' copy of all your alert texts in Notepad, or some other text editor that doesn't format the text. After the SC alert triggers, if you expect you will need it again, create a NEW alert, copy the 'offline' text into it and give it a different name. Then when you don't need it anymore, delete the new alert.

I don't know if SC will recognize that two alerts are identical even if the names are different, but you can try it. Maybe you have to delete the triggered alert first, then add the new one. Also, while you are doing this, the market must not have returned to a state where the alert is not already true or it won't go off.

lmkwin

Following along with @markd thought process on the workaround.

You have an Alert set up. Let's call that your Primary Alert that triggers.

You set up a secondary alert that triggers when the opposite conditions of the primary alert trigger. Let's call that the Reset Primary Alert.

Then you set up your 2nd version of your Primary Alert. Let's call that Primary Alert 2.

Both the Reset and the Primary Alert 2 are set to At market close and pause.

AFTER you get your Primary Alert Notification. Then you change your Reset Alert to Hourly and continue. Once you get Reset notification, you change Reset to At market close and pause and change Primary Alert 2 to Hourly and continue.

End of day, you reset the state of the alerts back to their beginning states.

I'm assuming this is an Advanced Alert and not a Price Alert.

I don't know if this will work as expected but it is fun to think of workarounds.

dhall6938

Thank you both, I am terrible at this kind of thing as you know by now, but it has been a lot of fun trying a lot of different things over the years. I have learned a lot. I have a ton of alerts that I use with real money trades and it's hard to keep up with them all sometimes especially when I may want to reset one of them not really knowing when I might need to reset it. My thoughts about it so far have been to set up the exact same alert but change the names on them. Let's say INDU1 and INDU2. Let the first one run normally while keeping the second on hold or paused. After the first one triggers, if I can remember take the second alert out of pause and activate it. I have also thought about opening a second account with all of the same alerts but with a different name and as one triggers in the first account, activate or un-pause the identical alert in the second account, lol. I know, I know, that's pretty crazy to think about, lol.

markd

Whatever you choose, I hope it works out for you.

lmkwin

Or inquire from Support as to what you are wanting to do, what you are thinking of doing and if there is a way to work around that they suggest?

dhall6938

Thanks again, I appreciate your help and advice.