Email Notification Frequency Control

[skyholder84]

Hi,

A few weeks into Live trading, and everything's running smoothly.

I have just one last grouse, which is the system I have set up to notify myself each time a strategy triggers.

Each time my strategy finds that conditions match, it

1) Enters a trade and
2) Sends an mail

Thanks to the "Entries per direction" function, my strategy won't go haywire and multiply my risk infinitely. Unfortunately, I can't seem to achieve the same outcome with emails.

Every time the strategy conditions fall into place, I receive tonnes of emails at one minute intervals. And I can understand why (because the trade conditions are still valid!), but I don't know how I can control this! Any ideas?

[NinjaTrader_RyanM]

Hello skyholder84,

The control for this must be custom coded, commonly through bool flags. Brief example (pseudo code, not everything will compile) of this below:

private bool okToEmail = true; //declare in variables region

if (tradeConditions)
{
EnterLong();

if(okToEmail)
{
SendMail();
okToEmail = false;
}
}

if (Position.MarketPosition == MarketPosition.Flat) //resets bool back to true when you're flat
okToEmail = true;

[skyholder84]

Thanks for the advice & quick reply! It'll be a bit of a nightmare to implement this, but I'll work on it.

[skyholder84]

On this issue, I would like to make a new suggestion for possible implementation in upcoming versions.

Perhaps there could be an easier way to specify the number of mails which go out? Something like the entriesperdirection function which ensures that only one trade is made. In this case, the control would ensure that only one email goes out per trigger event.

Just trying my luck. Thanks!

[NinjaTrader_RyanM]

Thank you for the feature request. We have added it to our internal tracking system with ID: #811