Alerts NOT RealTime with HeikenAshi Bars!

GraHal · Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:03:24 +0000

Please could somebody confirm this … with Platform set to Heiken-Ashi Bars, an Alert does not sound realtime, but instead the Alert sounds 1 bar late, i.e. the next bar after the Alert Price Level is hit! Of course this is useless if one is using Alerts on manual trading (as I do), Setting an Alert on a 5 min Heiken-Ashi Bar for a price level to be crossed, means that it may be – at worst – 5 minutes later when we hear the Alert. Works okay with Platform set to normal Candlesticks (i.e. NOT HeikenAshi). Very weird Issue … one would think that Alert Sound should have nothing to do with whatever Bars one is using … the Alerts should trigger on the mid price. So if somebody could confirm above please … in case the Tariff jitters have sent me mad! 😉 Try on 1 min TF with Alerts set close to price so that you are not waiting too long.

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04/11/2025 at 6:25 PM #245818

JS

By “Price=Close” I mean the current (real-time) price…

So, when the “real-time” price/close >= value, the alert goes off…

In your video it is a bit confusing because it looks like the alert goes off at the opening of the next bar but in this last bar the “real-time” price went through the specified value…

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04/11/2025 at 6:31 PM #245819

GraHal

JS wrote:

it looks like the alert goes off at the opening of the next bar

Yes above is what I am saying is wrong, i.e. Alerts are not working correctly on my Live Account.

I will do another video on my Demo Account, which did work correctly earlier today when I tried.

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04/11/2025 at 6:40 PM #245820

GraHal

Ha (but not really Ha! 🙁 ) Demo is now working in the same incorrect way as Live.

https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/video/38664027?key=51e1291931e266c0877b8f356f99e35f

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04/11/2025 at 6:56 PM #245821

JS

In this video I see the same thing happening, when the “Price” >= Value” then “alert” is triggered…

(When you use the “Price” in the “Alert Setting Window”, this price refers to the current price of the “Close” of the Heikin-Ashi bar…)

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04/11/2025 at 7:09 PM #245822

GraHal

JS wrote:

this price refers to the current price of the “Close” of the Heikin-Ashi bar

Where are you getting the above definition from?
How can it be realtime Alert if we have to wait until the end of a bar / open of next bar in order to be Alerted.

Any why – if realtime means current bar close – does PRT have the alternative option to enable Alert on ‘current bar close’?

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04/11/2025 at 7:15 PM #245823

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When you use “Price” in the “Alert Setting Window” which “Price” do you think this is…?

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04/11/2025 at 7:19 PM #245824

GraHal

Current Price / Mid Quote Price and thus – in my videos posted above – the middle of the Bid-Ask Band Indicator.

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04/11/2025 at 7:24 PM #245825

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The ‘Current Price / Mid Quoted Price’ of what…?

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04/11/2025 at 7:27 PM #245826

GraHal

The ‘Current Price / Mid Quoted Price’ of the Instrument on which I am setting up my Alert … in the videos I posted, the Instrument was the DJIA / Dow Jones.

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04/11/2025 at 7:33 PM #245827

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It’s not the “Current Price / Mid Quoted Price” of the Dow Jones, but the “Current Price / Mid Quoted Price” of the Heikin-Ashi bar…

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04/11/2025 at 7:40 PM #245828

GraHal

Have you looked it up in PRT docs then or what?

If you are correct than that is well weird as clearly I am interested in getting an Alert of the IG mid-Quoted Price as that is the Price that I am going to enter or exit my trade on etc.

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04/11/2025 at 7:47 PM #245829

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If you’re interested in receiving alerts based on the “IG mid-Quoted Price”, then you shouldn’t use “Heikin-Ashi” but regular candlesticks instead…

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04/11/2025 at 7:53 PM #245830

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Suppose you use regular “candlesticks” in your chart and you want to set an “alert”, you use “Price” in the “Alert Setting Window”… what “price” do you think will be used…?

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04/11/2025 at 7:59 PM #245833

GraHal

Same problem (as discussed in posts above) occurs with Candlesticks (I just tested this) so me saying the problem is with Heiken-Ashi was a red herring / misleading.

Anyway this gets weirder and weirder … I closed my Live Platfrom and low and behold, Demo Platform Alerts now work exactly as they should work.

The Bell icon and the Audible Alert both show the instant the Alert Line / Value is crossed by the mid-Quoted Price!

See attached video, wind on to 1 minute to see The Finale / The Big Reveal!!!! 🙂

https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/video/38666160?key=e5fc766ba4dcfc1b6dd7518a26f0802b

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04/11/2025 at 8:05 PM #245834

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The “Big Reveal” is that you suddenly don’t use “Heikin-Ashi” anymore but regular “candlesticks”…

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