Use Alert To Place Oders

[DayTrader12]

Hi,

Using Ninja 8, I am trying to set up an alert triggered order to place a buy stop one tick above the lower bollinger band if price crosses below the lower bollinger band (BB) and closes below the lower (BB), and a sell stop one tick below the upper bollinger band if price crosses above the upper bollinger band and closes above the upper BB.
I do not see the ability to do that using alerts. Is it possible?

Thanks, and have a great day,
DayTrader12.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hi DayTrader12,

While it would be possible to set an alert to trigger when the price crosses below the lower bollinger band, i'm not sure about placing an order with a stop using the current price with an offset.

I will have to look into this for you.
I appreciate your patience while I find more information.

[DayTrader12]

Thank you ChelseaB,

It says it is possible in the help guide.
But, the guide does not tell me how to attach the buy stop or sell stop with my
condition of 1 tick above the lower BB or below the upper BB:

http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpGuides/nt8/en-us/

Under Operations: Alerts

Only allows me to set the stop price as a number.

DT12

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello DT12,

Our development has let me know that currently a typed value must go here.

However, this was made into feature request SFT-1389 'Alert Dynamic Submit Order Prices' as this will be revisited by our development as demand for this functionality grows.

I have added your vote toward implementing this.

[DayTrader12]

Thanks ChelseaB,

Please ask the team to include the ability to use the BB of one data series with the entry using another data series. For example, if the close of a 2 minute candle is less than the lower BB of a 10 minute data series, place a buy stop at the lower BB plus 1 tick. I am trying to code a strategy that would accomplish this, but I am hung up on a condition to execute the trade if the bands are wide. Working on it.

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hi DayTrader12,

Our development has updated the feature request with these details.
Please let me know if you have any other feature requests you would like to submit.

[Forexmichael]

Setting alerts

Hi all I am new to Ninja Trader I want to ask how to set Alerts up for things like hitting take profit and hitting stop loss etc if its posible thank you all. Michael...

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello Michael,

Currently, this thread is in the NinjaTrader 8 Beta section of the forum.

Are you wanting to trigger an Alert when the stop loss or profit target fills in the Beta of NinjaTrader 8 or are you wanting this for the current stable release of NinjaTrader 7?

Below is a link to the help guide on Alert().
http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...n-us/alert.htm

You will need to detect that the order has filled in either OnOrderUpdate or OnExecution.

if (order.Name == "Stop Loss")
{
Alert("myAlert", Priority.Low, "Stop Loss has filled", string.Empty, 1, Brushes.White, Brushes.Black);
}

Alert(string id, Priority priority, string message, string soundLocation, int rearmSeconds, Brush backColor, Brush foreColor);