Set Alarm for price level touch with a Shortcut Key

[dpolyakov]

Is it possible with a stroke of a key to set an alarm for particular stock?
I basically manually monitor over 20 stocks (I use MarketWatch window as a "database" of stocks) and I'm looking for particular setups that can happen somewhat very quick. I really need something that will grab my attention when a price of any of those stocks touches a particular price level (for each stock its own price level). The ultimate best would be on a chart window to place a horizontal line and an alarm at the same time with a shortcut key.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickG]

It is not possible to apply an alert via hot key. In general, there is no concept of alert templates. Can you elaborate on what the 'shortcut key' you're referring to does in this scenario - "place a horizontal line and an alarm at the same time with a shortcut key"?

[dpolyakov]

I think a picture will worth 1000 words:



Then I go to the next stock, analyze, set levels, etc. Sometimes I miss signals because I was looking at another stock. Right now I have to write down on a paper stocks and levels. I thought NT team can do something about it.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickG]

So essentially you'd like a horizontal line to automatically have a price line alert. I suspect the 'Price Alert' add-on on our publicly available NinjaTrader Ecosystem website will meet most of your needs:

• https://ninjatraderecosystem.com/use...d/price-alert/

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[dpolyakov]

Thanks, but this will not work - it does not "save" alert per symbol. When I click on another stock in Market Watch all my charts are reloading. But Price Alert indicator stays with the same value.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickG]

What you're suggesting would be possible with manually configured alerts on your horizontal lines, however, I suspect this would take too much time to meet your needs.

This would also be possible using custom NinjaScript programming. If you'd like more information about how to program this yourself or third party developers who could program this for you, please contact us via email at PlatformSupport[AT]NinjaTrader[DOT]com

[dpolyakov]

Can it be considered as a feature request? I think for active traders this will be very helpful. Would be nice to have an "Alert Window" with all alerts for each stock being set.

[NinjaTrader_PatrickG]

I have submitted this as a feature request to the Development Team. The internal tracking number for your feature request is SFT-1988. Please reference this internal tracking number when contacting Platform Support if you ever have questions regarding this feature request.

When a feature request is implemented, you'll find a description of the new feature in the release notes:

• http://ninjatrader.com/support/helpG...ease_notes.htm

[dpolyakov]

awesome!!! Thanks a lot!