making an alert sound only once on bar close

[cbart_1]

i have an alert that i use but i cant seem to figure out how to make it only sound once when it is set to alerm on the bar close. Right now it will sound on each tick of the bar. I want the alert to sound once as soon as the the two lines it is looking at crosses on the current bar but not to sound on each tick jump. In other words i want it to be a live indicator i guess is what you would call it.

if(sMAD[1] > sMA[1] && sMAD[0] < sMA[0] && sTime[0] == 1)
{
if(!Historical && sTime[0] == 1)
{
vPlayCount = 3;
PlaySound(iAlert);
}
}

This is what i have for now.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Hello cbart_1,

You could set CalculateOnBarClose = true and it will only check on bar close.

If you want to run your script with COBC = false, but only want this evaluated at bar close, could work with FirstTickOfBar for this, by adding FirstTickOfBar to your condition and referencing 1 bar back like in this reference sample.

FirstTickOfBar is also a good mechanism for resetting a bool flag that could control sound playback.

if (myBool)
{
PlaySound(iAlert);
myBool = false;
}

if (FirstTickOfBar)
myBool = true;

[cbart_1]

waht i said was wrong

I meant i have the indicator calculate on bar close set to false. This way if the bar ticks going up or down make the lines cross i only want the alarm to sound once, because the bar ticks make the lines cross multiple times on 1 bar. I just want it to sound once. This way it wont sound the alarm on every tick in a 1, 5, 10, 15, or 30 minute bar.

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Thanks for the reply. Using a bool flag and resetting at FirstTickOfBar is a good option for this then.

[cbart_1]

i think i got it maybe

I used the FirstTickOfBar and made a variable true and made it false in the crossing code. So i think this way it should set it back to being true on the beginning of each bar.

if (FirstTickOfBar)
{
FBTick = true;
}
if(sMAD[1] > sMA[1] && sMAD[0] < sMA[0] && sTime[0] == 1 && FBTick == true)
{
if(!Historical && sTime[0] == 1)
{
vPlayCount = 3;
PlaySound(iAlert);
FBTick = false;
}
}

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Yes, that's close, but will also want to include a check to the bool flag before playing sound.

if (FBTick)
{
PlaySound(iAlert);
FBTick = false;
}

[cbart_1]

now i get no alarm

Ok this is how i put it in my code but now i dont get an alarm.

if (FirstTickOfBar)
{
FBTick = true;
}

if(sMAD[1] > sMA[1] && sMAD[0] < sMA[0] && sTime[0] == 1)
{
if(!Historical && sTime[0] == 1)
{
if (FBTick)
{
vPlayCount = 3;
PlaySound(iAlert);
FBTick = false;
}
}
}

[NinjaTrader_RyanM1]

Sorry, I'm not sure why that wouldn't work. Using bool flags is a common technique for executing something only once. It does look like you took some other parts of your script and included it after the bool check. Maybe that part of your script needs to be executed more than once per bar? I would try using my previous two examples used, where only PlaySound and bool assignment executes after your FirstTick returns true.

It's also good to learn techniques for debugging and simplifying your code, so you can follow code flow and work through these types of issues. Please see here for help debugging:

http://www.ninjatrader.com/support/forum/showthread.php?t=3418

[cbart_1]

ok thank you it is someting wrong with my sound code. i will go through it and find out what is wrong.