Alert set or not?

[Irukandji]

"Again as mentioned, your request would not be possible at this time."

This is ridiculous! So I cannot set an alert to any other symbol than the one I'm staring at right in front of me? What, prey tell, is the point of even having an alert function?? The whole point of alerts is to be alerted to something I'm not currently paying any attention to!

What is the solution to this? I need alerts on dozens of stocks which I'm not watching - when the alert fires, I pull up the chart, see what's happening, decide to place a trade or not - does this make sense?

[NinjaTrader_Heath]

Hello Irukandji,

Thank you for your reply.

You can do this, as we've discussed.

In order to do this you would want to add multiple data series to the chart and create multiple alert conditions tying each of the data series to the line in that chart.

This could get rather complex and you may be better server creating a NinjaScript addon to do this for you, as what you're doing seems to be more complex than what these alerts were designed for.

If you'd like assistance with this please write into PlatformSupport(at)NinjaTrader(dot)com letting us know you'd like assistance to the NinjaScript team so they can provide you with resources to get started.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

[Irukandji]

Yeah this is totally dumb and why I'm considering moving over to TC2000.