Alerts

Signals & Overlays® can alert users for multiple events relevant to the existing features in the toolkit. To learn more about how to set alerts in general see how to create alerts on tradingview.

In order for an alert to work in the toolkit make sure the related feature is enabled

Using Placeholders With Confirmation/Contrarian Alerts

When creating an alert using ‘Any Confirmation’ or ‘Any Contrarian’ it is possible to use placeholders so that the alert message returns the type of signal that triggered the alert. In order to do so, paste the following line in the message field:

Bullish : {{plot("Bullish")}} | Bearish : {{plot("Bearish")}} | Bullish+: {{plot("Bullish+")}} | Bearish+ : {{plot("Bearish+")}}

Any Alert() Function Call

The any alert() function call alert condition allows to create one alert using various conditions, this allows to bypass the limit of one alert for free users as well as making the process of updating many alerts faster and easier. To create such an alert go to the indicator settings, and scroll down to the ‘ANY ALERT() FUNCTION CALL CONDITIONS’ section.

Toggle on the conditions of interest. Now create a new alert, in the first Condition drop-down menu select the LuxAlgo Premium indicator, in the second drop-down menu select Any alert() function call, you can then create the alert.

This alert would use once per bar close by default.

All-in-one alerts do not differ from regular alerts, they will be using the same indicator settings as the one used during their creation. Note however that you cannot set a custom message for all-in-one alerts, the message displayed when the selected conditions trigger will be the same as the one used in the same individual alert conditions.

Any Alert() Function Call Message

Users can set a custom message that will be used when an “any alert() function call” condition is triggered in the message field below the list of conditions. Users can use placeholders to customize messages and return useful information, the following placeholders are supported:

Symbol Placeholders

Placeholder	Description	Example
`{default}`	Default message associated with the triggered condition	`"Bullish Confirmation Signal"`
`{ticker}`	Symbol ticker without the exchange prefix	`"MSFT"`
`{exchange}`	Symbol exchange/data source	`"COINBASE"`
`{sector}`	Sector of the symbol, `na` if the symbol has no sector	`"Technology Services"`
`{market}`	Symbol market type	`"Stocks"`

Time Placeholders

Placeholder	Description	Example
`{tf}`	Chart timeframe, includes “S” for seconds, “D” for days, “W” for weeks, “M” for months	`"15"`
`{time}`	Unix time in milliseconds in exchange timezone	`"1705331385158"`
`{year}`	Current year in exchange timezone	`"2024"`
`{month}`	Current month in exchange timezone	`"7"`
`{day}`	Current day of the month in exchange timezone	`"21"`

Data Placeholders

Placeholder	Description	Example
`{open}`	Opening price	`"1.2145"`
`{high}`	High price	`"1.2357"`
`{low}`	Low price	`"1.1983"`
`{close}`	Closing price	`"1.0569"`
`{volume}`	Current volume	`"45216"`

Indicators Placeholders

Placeholder	Description	Example
`{smart_trail}`	Smart Trail overlay value	`"0.8321"`
`{rz_r3}`	Reversal Zones overlay resistance 3 value	`"3.4102"`
`{rz_r2}`	Reversal Zones overlay resistance 2 value	`"1.0293"`
`{rz_r1}`	Reversal Zones overlay resistance 1 value	`"5.1234"`
`{rz_s1}`	Reversal Zones overlay support 1 value	`"2.5647"`
`{rz_s2}`	Reversal Zones overlay support 2 value	`"7.8910"`
`{rz_s3}`	Reversal Zones overlay support 3 value	`"6.2345"`
`{catcher}`	Trend Catcher overlay value	`"4.3456"`
`{tracer}`	Trend Tracer overlay value	`"3.7812"`
`{neo_lead}`	Neo Cloud overlay lead value	`"1.9087"`
`{neo_lag}`	Neo Cloud overlay lag value	`"0.4571"`
`{tp1}`	Take Profit 1 value	`"2.7690"`
`{sl1}`	Stop Loss 1 value	`"8.1203"`
`{tp2}`	Take Profit 2 value	`"9.6584"`
`{sl2}`	Stop Loss 2	`"3.1246"`

Format as JSON

Use the following message template to receive “any alert() function call” messages in the JSON format:

{
  "alert": "{default}",
  "ticker": "{ticker}",
  "tf": "{tf}",
  "ohlcv":{
    "open": {open},
    "high": {high},
    "low": {low},
    "close": {close},
    "volume": {volume}
  },
  "bartime": {time}
}

Updating Alerts Using Any Alert() Function Call

If you already set an any alert() function call alert and want to change the indicator settings or want to toggle on another condition all you need to do is edit the alert you want to update, select the second instance of the indicator in the first Condition drop-down menu and then click on save.

Custom Alert Creator

Users wishing to construct more complex alerts using features within the toolkit and/or external indicators can use the Custom Alert Creator. The custom alert creator allows alerting when various user-set conditions are met or when a sequence of conditions is complete.

A user wishing to be alerted when any bullish signal occurs while the smart trail is bullish could do it as follows:

A custom alert can be triggered as an any alert() function call if the setting is selected or as a regular alert when selected in the Tradingview alert creator menu.

Steps

Steps allow creating a sequence of conditions, which when met trigger an alert. When a condition with a step equal to 1 is met the next condition associated with step 2 will be evaluated (if enabled) and so on for higher steps (if any). Conditions with the same associated step will require both conditions to be true in order for the condition associated with a higher step (if any) to be evaluated. This allows certain conditions to act as filters.

A user wishing to be alerted for any bullish confirmation signal classified as 1 or 2 by the ML Classifier occurring after the smart trail turned bullish could do it as follows:

Make sure the ML Classifier is enabled.

Make sure steps are set such that they form a linear sequence. For example, if the lowest step is 2 or if the set steps are only 1 and 3 an error will be returned.

OR Step Operator

The “OR” step operator can be used to get alerted for any additional condition using “OR” as step, in addition to other set custom alert conditions. Conditions using the “OR” step can be highlighted using a different color, which can be set from the Custom Alert Creator settings. Users can choose the location of this visual element (top or bottom of the chart).

All Step Operator

The “All” step operator can be used to filter any set “Step” condition, including “OR” and “Invalidate”. This step operator can be useful if all the steps in a sequence needs to obey a specific rule.

If a user has 2 steps set, and requires both of these to occur at a specific time interval such as 9am to 1pm, then we can use a “Session” condition using the “All” step, requiring our step 1 and step 2 to be occur between 9am and 1pm.

Invalidate Step

The “Invalidate” step allows to set a condition as an “invalidation condition”. When this condition is triggered while a sequence of conditions is incomplete, the sequence will restart at step 1. If multiple steps are set as “Invalidate” any of the conditions being true will reset the sequence of conditions, as such not all of them are required to be true for the sequence of conditions to reset.

Example

Let’s take an example where we use 2 regular steps and one “Invalidate” step. The alert will trigger when step 2 trigger after step 1 has been triggered.

Step 1

Step 1 condition trigger, we will now evaluate step 2 from now on.

Invalidation Step

Invalidation step condition trigger, we reset the sequence and evaluate step 1 just after.

Invalidation Behaviors

Invalidation behaviors allows adding more restrictions to a sequence of conditions, users can use two different invalidation behaviors described below:

Invalidate On Step 1

The “Invalidate On Step 1” behavior allows to reset an incomplete sequence of conditions when the condition on step 1 trigger. This prevents the first step condition from happening in between other steps of the condition sequence. This behavior is useful when the first step of our sequence of conditions needs to never be repeated during the sequence.

Example

Let’s take an example where we use 3 regular steps.

Step 1

Step 1 condition trigger, we will now evaluate step 2 from now on.

Step 2

Step 2 condition trigger, we will now evaluate step 3 from now on.

Step 1 Trigger

Step 1 condition trigger, we start evaluating step 2 from now.

Invalidate On Any Repeated Step

The “Invalidate On Any Repeated Step” behavior allows to reset an incomplete sequence of conditions when a step is triggered such that it does not respect the set order of conditions. This behavior is useful when we want a perfectly ordered sequence of conditions to complete, without any step repeating itself.

Example

Let’s take an example where we use 3 regular steps.

Step 1

Step 1 condition trigger, we will now evaluate step 2 from now on.

Step 2

Step 2 condition trigger, we will now evaluate step 3 from now on.

Step 1 or 2 Trigger

Step 1 or 2 conditions trigger, we start evaluating step 1 from now.

Maximum Step Interval

Users can determine what is the maximum allowed horizontal distance (in bars) between two steps by enabling the “Maximum Step Interval” setting. This allows restricting steps separated by a large amount of bars. If the amount of bars since a step exceed the set threshold, then the conditions sequence is reset, and we start evaluating from step 1 again.

Highlight On Chart

When a custom alert condition is set, a visual element is displayed at the bottom of the chart in order to more easily visualize when the custom alert conditions occurs (displayed by default).

Alerts Reference

Pre-Set Alerts

Alert	Description
Any alert() function call	Return when an alert when a user toggled any alert() condition is triggered (see sections below)
Any Confirmation	Triggers when any Confirmation signal (bullish/bearish normal/+) is displayed
Any Bullish Confirmation	Triggers when any bullish Confirmation signal (normal/+) is displayed
Any Bearish Confirmation	Triggers when any bearish Confirmation signal (normal/+) is displayed
Any Confirmation+	Triggers when any Confirmation + signal (bullish/bearish) is displayed
Any Contrarian	Triggers when any Contrarian signal (normal/+ bullish/bearish) is displayed
Any Bullish Contrarian	Triggers when any bullish Contrarian signal (normal/+) is displayed
Any Bearish Contrarian	Triggers when any bearish Contrarian signal (normal/+) is displayed
Bullish Confirmation	Triggers when a normal bullish Confirmation signal is displayed
Bearish Confirmation	Triggers when a normal bearish Confirmation signal is displayed
Bullish Confirmation+	Triggers when a bullish Confirmation+ signal is displayed
Bearish Confirmation+	Triggers when a bearish Confirmation+ signal is displayed
Bullish Exit	Triggers when a bullish exit signal is displayed
Bearish Exit	Triggers when a bearish exit signal is displayed
Trend Catcher Down	Triggers once the Trend Catcher starts decreasing (switch from green to red)
Trend Catcher Up	Triggers once the Trend Catcher starts rising (switch from red to green)
Trend Tracer Down	Triggers once the Trend Tracer starts decreasing (switch from green to red)
Trend Tracer Up	Triggers once the Trend Tracer starts rising (switch from red to green)
Custom Alert Condition	Triggers on the event of a user set custom alert condition being true

Any alert() Function Call

Alert	Description	Default
Bullish Confirmation	Triggers when a normal bullish Confirmation signal is displayed
Bearish Confirmation	Triggers when a normal bearish Confirmation signal is displayed
Bullish +	Triggers when a strong bullish Confirmation signal is displayed
Bearish +	Triggers when a strong bearish Confirmation signal is displayed
Bullish Contrarian	Triggers when a normal bullish Contrarian signal is displayed
Bearish Contrarian	Triggers when a normal bearish Contrarian signal is displayed
Bullish +	Triggers when a strong bullish Contrarian signal is displayed
Bearish +	Triggers when a strong bearish Contrarian signal is displayed
Bullish Exit	Triggers when a bullish exit signal is displayed
Bearish Exit	Triggers when a bearish exit signal is displayed
Take Profit	Triggers when a take profit is reached (TP1 or TP2)
Stop Loss	Triggers when a stop loss is reached (SL1 or SL2)
Bullish Turn +	Triggers when a weak bullish trend turns strong (purple candle switch to green)
Bearish Turn +	Triggers when a weak bearish trend turns strong (purple candle switch to red)
Custom Alert Condition	Triggers on the event of a user set custom alert condition being true

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